Petroleum Memory Garden
Year: 2025
Material/Technique: Thread, Others
Edition: Unique
Signed:Not Set
About the Work
- Year
- 2025
- Material/Technique
- Thread, Others
- Edition
- Unique
- Signed
- Not Set
- Frame
- Not Set
- Work Certificate
- Not Set
- Category
- Installation
Work Details
CONCEPT
Graves are our emotional anchors, our hopes of remembering those who once lived and watching over us, and our prayers for the future. They also coexist within the living spaces of people today.
This work evokes thoughts of ancient life. The six gravestones are made from petroleum-derived acrylic yarn. It is believed that petroleum is made from the remains of organisms that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. For modern people, petroleum is an essential resource for urban development, architecture, and everyday life; its source is ancient organisms. In the bustling, ever-evolving city of Yaesu, we have created a space that evokes thoughts of such organisms.
Because petroleum is extracted from deep underground, the gravestones and their bases represent geological strata. Furthermore, the facades of the Tokyo Tatemono Yaesu Building and the surrounding skyscrapers are also layered, connecting to the strata of the artwork installed on the first floor, as if continuing into the future.
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Exhibition Information
- Current Exhibition
- Brillia Art Award Cube 202509.25.2025 - 09.25.2125
Artist
artist
Chikaraishi considers the structure of knitting as a crystalline structure, and is interested in the characteristics that continue to transform and circulate through the act of unraveling. She creates her works by comparing knitting to the way the world is formed. ●Education 2004 BFA, Department of Information Design, Tama Art University ●Selected Solo Exhibitions 2023 CHIKARAISHI Saki In-Residency Production and Exhibition "Fiber! Survivor! A Means Right Here, Close at Hand” Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2023 “Artist in Museum AiM Vol.13 Saki Chikaraishi” The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Gifu, Japan 2017 Nagasaki Art Project ”Knit Invaders in Nagasaki” Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture/Teramachi, Nagasaki, Japan 2016 “Back To The Fiber : KAMISANSUI” Sibuya Hikarie aiiima3, Tokyo, Japan 2012 "UNIVERSE ⇄ UNIVERSE" Elttob Tep Issey Miyake Ginza, Tokyo, Japan 2008 "My Dream Trip" The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 2005 "Sakippo" Wada Gallery, Tokyo, Japan ●Performing Arts 2022 Kichijoji Dance LAB. voi.4 Tomo Mizukoshi×Saki Chikaraishi ”ECHO-TONE” Kichijoji Theatre, Tokyo, Japan ●Selected Group Exhibitions 2022 ”These Dreams of Times” Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan 2022 ”DOGO ONSENART 2022” Dogo Onsen area, Ehime, Japan 2020-2022 ”MIND TRAIL” Yoshino/Tenkawa/Soni, Nara, Japan 2018 “Strange Hometown / Familiar Strange Land” Kawaguchi Art Gallery ATLIA, Saitama, Japan 2016 “Useful Or Not” O’PLAZA Shopping Mall, Shenzhen, China 2016 “KENPOKU ART 2016” 6 cities in the northern Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan 2015 "Osaka Canvas2015" Osaka Central Public Hall/Nakanoshima/Water Corridor,Osaka, Japan 2015 "AMIT 2015" Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan 2014 "ICC Kids Program 2014 Inspiring Questions - Questioning Inspiration" NTT Inter Communication Center ［ICC］, Tokyo, Japan 2010 "Shibuya Style" Alternative Space, Seibu Department Shibuya Store, Tokyo, Japan 2008 "Experience Communication" Communications Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2004 "Imagination of Information Art" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan 2004 "The 7th Japan Media Arts Festival" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan 2003 “Kinetic Art Exhibition 2003” PCA Life Gallery, Tokyo, Japan ●Selected Competitions and Awards 2014 LUMINE meets ART AWARD 2014(Japan), Grand Prize, "Knit Invader", Installation 2014 YouFab Global Creative Awards 2014(Japan), Finalist, "Traveling Knitting Machine”, Performance 2004 The 9th Computer Graphics Contest for Students(Japan), Interactive Art category, Grand Prize, "ManGlobe", Interactive Art 2003 The 7th Japan Media Arts Festival(Japan), Art category, Nomination, "ManGlobe", Interactive Art
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