Contemporary artist Junko Oki, who creates new works based on old fabrics and videos that have been used for a long time across the ages, will make her first appearance! MEET YOUR ART MC Mirai Moriyama will talk about what inspired her to become an artist and the background behind her work.

“MEET YOUR ART” is an art-focused program hosted by Mirai Moriyama.

This time, contemporary artist Junko Oki, who creates new works using old cloth and tools that have been used for a long time, will be making her first appearance on MEET YOUR ART!
What is Oki’s motivation for embroidering on old fabrics, whose activities were inspired by cloth left behind by her mother? We take a deeper look into the background of her work.



The “Shinsho Kogei Exhibition” will be held at the National Crafts Museum from tomorrow, Friday, September 5th. Please come and experience Oki’s works.

︎Click here for information on the exhibits featured in the video!
“Impression Crafts Exhibition”
Date: September 6th (Friday) – December 1st (Sunday), 2024
Venue: National Crafts Museum (3-2 Dewamachi, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture)
HP:https://www.momat.go.jp/craft-museum/exhibitions/559

International Art Festival “Aichi 2025”
Date: September 13th (Sat) – November 30th (Sun), 2025
Venue: Aichi Arts Center in Nagoya, Aichi Ceramic Art Museum and other locations in Seto City
HP:https://aichitriennale.jp/

Junko Oki
Junko Oki creates works by layering stitches on fabric as a process of imprinting traces of life. Her unique patterns, stitched directly onto the fabric without a preliminary sketch, are a simple technique that betrays the perception of “embroidery” and awakens the viewer’s fundamental senses. By imprinting and weaving together the accumulation of her own time into the time that old fabrics and tools have passed and the stories that they tell, she creates works that are filled with new life and coincidence. Everything that has existed, time that has passed but certainly existed. At the core of her work is finding a different landscape by layering multiple layers of time.
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Born in Urawa City in 1963, she is currently based in Kamakura City. Her major solo exhibitions include “Moon and Chrysalis” (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2017), “anthology” (Hagi Museum of Art, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Urakami Memorial Museum, 2020), and “Oki Junko: Exposed” (Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura Annex, 2022). Her major group exhibitions include “Hokuriku Crafts Festival GO FOR KOGEI” (Natadera, Ishikawa, 2021), “Collection Exhibition 1 It Knows: When Form Becomes Spirit” (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 2023), and “FUJI TEXTILE WEEK” (Shimoyoshida Honmachi Street Area, Fujiyoshida City, Yamanashi, 2023). In 2014, she published a collection of her own photographs, “PUNK” (Bungeishunju). His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa Prefecture, Urawa Art Museum, and 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Oki will also be participating in the Aichi 2025 international art festival, which will be held at the Aichi Arts Center, Aichi Ceramic Art Museum, and Seto City from September to November 2025.

Junko Oki Homepage
https://www.junkooki.com/
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https://www.instagram.com/wokyshoten/


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