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Hope ―Overcoming the disaster
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Yu Kuramitsu participated in the Artist in Residency Program held by Art Centre Pushkinskaya 10 in Saint Petersburg, Russia from November 25, 2012 to April 20, 2013.
She had her solo exhibition from April 6 to 18, 2013.
This exhibition was included in the Japanese cultural event "Japanese Spring" supported by the Japanese general consulate.
Yu Kuramitsu wanted viewers to know the current, real Japan. She made the exhibition theme to be about the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster to help them understand what she as a Japanese felt about this catastrophe.
Introduction
March 11, 2011: The day which changed the lives of the Japanese
It has been about two years since the Great Tohoku earthquake disaster, and I have spent days thinking continuously about life and death ever since.
I was born in Fukushima prefecture and grew up in Kanagawa prefecture, so Fukushima was like a hometown to me. Directly after the disaster when I visited the disaster area, looking at close ones enduring the affliction, and seeing the trees standing here and there on the horizon, which I should not have been able to see, my heart shivered. Time flowed as though whispering “Hope and dreams, even the will to live is taken away.”
However, taking a glimpse at life and death, I renewed my feeling that I must face life in a more serious manner.
I have entitled the theme of this exhibit as “Hopes”; to express in it, my will to struggle in chase of my dreams, despite the difficulties of gaining dreams and hope, something that I realized from the disaster. Especially the piece called “Hopes” which has the same motif as the theme of the exhibit, is an expression of this feeling as a relationship between man and woman.
I hope my works will give you a clue to think about living with hope in hand.
This Exhibition was held in...
2013 in Art Centre Pushkinskaya 10, Russia
2015 in Art Labo Hashimoto, Japan
2015 in The Museum for Non-Conformist Art, Russia
Exhibited Works
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Collective Exhibitions
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