ichnoumi (ichnoumi ocean of ‘I’ ), 2026, 21×14.8cm, mixed media

an Octopus Touches a Mountain, 2026, textile collage with hand sitiching embroidery, 27×16.5cm

 

photo credit Zeynop Ekim

 

 

Easy and Easy, 2026, Reading-Performance, 30 minutes

My language is an odd shape and inaccurate outside my mother tongue. I stumble all the time, failing to pronounce and spell words. If one is not a form of holometabolism, a body cannot transform into a native speaker. I speak English as my second language; I am like a tennis player playing tennis with a ping-pong racket. I speak German as my third language, POV: a flute player who plays music by a drainpipe. Language learning is repetitivetime-consuming, and painful. Especially speaking and writing, nervousness grows for correctness, and overdoing practices piled up in my mind.

In my reading performance titled Easy and Easyintroduce several short texts about language learning and its bittersweetVocabulary is regulated, but acquiring knowledge to explain about oneself is a social need for belonging outside a mother tongue. How is an artist as a language learner gaining the power of creation? If all things are Übung (practice) in both inside a language school and its outside, when comes the real thing? Period.

Link: https://www.akbild.ac.at/en/university/events/exhibitions_didacticprogram/2026/open-days-2026/easy-and-easy

 

A text for ART FAIR TOKYO, POLA ART FOUNDATION, Crossing, Tokyo/ アートフェア東京

展覧会によせて

日本からウィーンに引っ越してもうすぐ8年が経つ。有難いことに研修員や奨学生として、制作を続けられている。若干テーマは違えど、どの時期も、文様の歴史の探究、純粋美術と装飾美術の境界、テキストとイメージのbridge、抽象絵画、また自分自身の母語の外での経験など、複数のsubjectが蔦の蔓みたいに規則的にお互い絡まりあって、有機的に成長していった期間だったと思う。その蔦の蔓を眺めていると、自分の芸術の実践の根底にはいつも「言語」に対する問いがあると気がつく。時々自分でもびっくりするほど、私には伝えたいことがたくさんある。だから自作の媒体やジャンルは多様、というよりどんどん拡がっていく。一見まとまりのない作品群に見えるかもしれないが、例えば森には木があり草があり池があり動物がいる。森のなかのエコロジーは人間が気がつかないうちにどんどん変様する。もちろん作品は一作品ずつ自立(individual)した存在だが、私という森を構成しているうちの要素のなかからやって来たものだと思って鑑賞してくだされば嬉しい。

I have been living Vienna in 8years. I feel like I am a lucky person because I can continue to work there by support. When I was a grantee and a scholarship student, I worked with several a few different theme. I have been interested in many different a field of culture. My interests are an exploring a history of pattern, a betweenness between apply art and fine art, to bridge a text and an image, abstract paintings, Exophony and so on. A multitude of such my various interests twin each other by their growing up. I feel like a I develop my artist practice organically, not such a scientific development. By seeing a multitude of such my various interests,I realised my artistic practice questions to about a language itself. Thus, l eager to express myself through producing my works.So, I naturally expand my media and a subject of my works. When an audience sees my works, they probably think I am a loose-thinking artist. Here I write a tip to how they can see my works smoothly. Each of my works are single pieces, but I recommend to they try to see my works as similar as do seeing a forest. A forest has trees, plants, soils, ponds, bugs, and animals et cetera. The forests´ ecology keeps changing, still the forest looks same before one tiny plant sprouts up and after a plant sprouts up. I do not show images in my works. I show my ecology, can tell I living for express.