MAKI UMEHARA
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Etude: Breeze (The Architectural Model)
For Maki Umehara, building and architectural model almost remind her the living conditions in her childhood. Since around the end of 1990s, betweeness around art and the architectural model has been embodied in her work. The use of model as a small sculpture suggests a memory, including her dream and the others' dream. After she has made a series of the architectural models with photos regarding topics between fiction and reality throughout a year (2002-03), both installation entitled〈Breeze〉and the model were created for the exhibition (2006, Germany). [Notes]
In 2001, Umehara began to live together with German artists in an apartment in Düsseldorf, since German and English were necessary to the daily communication. Works such as〈Breeze〉were made by Umehara, beside her experience without speaking first language for a long time. The following were German artists there; one had once been to Japan as a scholar of an art university; and the others had been working hard along with art project and its works. She recognized the circumstances that she shall exchange opinions with them. It was something valuable for her to live with them within the apartment environed with lacks of Japanese culture though.