living like a Last Rendezvous
Year: 2025
Material/Technique: Mixed Media, Clay, Wood, Object
Size: 16 × 11 × 35 cm
Edition: Unique
Signed:Included
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About the Work
- Year
- 2025
- Material/Technique
- Mixed Media, Clay, Wood, Object
- Size
- 16 × 11 × 35 cm
- Edition
- Unique
- Signed
- Included
- Frame
- Negotiations
- Work Certificate
- Included
- Distributor of artworks
- MOTOKO Mitou
- Ship-from Area
- Nagasaki Prefecture
- Days Until Dispatch
- About a Week
- Category
- Sculpture
- Style
- Conceptual, Emotional, Romantic, Philosophy / Vanitas, Gender, Love
Work Details
Sculpture made with the mouth.
The breath, like curses or wishes, and the constraint of using a spatula held in the mouth.
The paper clay material incorporates fragments of torn letters.
The skeletal form anonymizes gender, race, nationality, occupation, and attributes; the relationship between these two skeletons is also anonymous.
My ongoing practice aims to visualize the dignity and very existence that remain until the end for those marginalized by the medium of sculpture, which carries a certain authority.
It also seeks to imbue the creative process itself with meaning by creating while resisting, using a body constrained and restricted.
The work's title references a piece once rejected from the Venice Biennale for “suggesting homosexuality.”
Using bodies constrained and restricted, I create works that resist in order to visualize the dignity and very existence that remain until the end for those marginalized, in response to the medium of sculpture that carries a certain authority.
Furthermore, being bisexual myself, I explored whether it was possible to capture the existence of marginalized attributes. Bones are a part common to all humans, and their form is an anonymous one that encompasses race, gender, nationality, disability, attributes, and more.
This is a portrait sculpture for all marginalized beings.
Paper clay made from letters, gofun (white lead powder), bone powder, gesso, fragrant oil, and other materials
Created using Mito's original technique, formed by applying a spatula to the mouth and using breath
The title is taken from a work that was nearly rejected from the Venice Biennale for “suggesting lesbianism between women.”
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Artist
Contenporary Artist
Motoko Mitō is a contemporary artist based in Kyushu. Her work has consistently focused on confronting pain and exploring memory and deterioration. She engages with social issues—including interdisciplinary approaches centered on art, archival preservation, regional challenges, gender, disability, social education, disaster recovery, and biodiversity—through her art practice. Furthermore, drawing on her professional experience as a cultural property conservation technician and curator, as well as her practical involvement in cultural property preservation and participation in cultural property rescue efforts in disaster-stricken areas, she continues her activities by dedicating her life and time to “social sculpture”—a practice focused on the preservation of artworks and the transmission of memory in the contemporary era through works centered on the themes of “preservation” and “restoration,” while also addressing marginalized memories, individuals, and social issues. Resides in Nagasaki Prefecture Born in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, 1988 Graduated from Fukuoka Prefectural Shuyukan High School, 2007 Graduated from Oita University, Faculty of Education and Welfare Sciences, Information Society and Culture Program, Comprehensive Expression Course, 2011 Completed Master's Program in Art Education, Graduate School of Education, Oita University, 2014 【Major Exhibitions and Events】 2009: International Art Festival: Contemporary Art Festival “Mixed Bathing Hot Spring World” AAC: Art Meets Architecture Competition 2010: “Let's Go Dancing! vol.10” hosted by Japan Contemporary Dance Network 2012 OASIS Artist Produce HEart OF CHRistMAS! Exhibition Division Grand Prix “The Last Rendezvous” (iichiko General Cultural Center Prefectural Gallery), Oita Prefecture Cultural and Sports Promotion Foundation 2013 Oita City Art Exhibition, Art Brother Award 2020 AFAF Art Fair Asia Fukuoka, Selected 2023 Yufuin Station Art Hall Project Exhibition Solo Exhibition “You Are Eternal, You Are Infinite” (Yufuin Station Art Hall) Plus numerous other solo exhibitions, etc.
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