Masami

MASAMI
CREATIVE RESIDENCY AND EXHIBITION

ANTANANARIVO
FEBRUARY 6 - JULY 30, 2023

Masami’s research residency in Antananarivo focuses on the essence, the environment and the symbolism of the earth. Her research is based on observation and immersion in what she feels to be the life force in this country; a strength and energy that she finds in the earth itself, in its nature, but also and above all in every person who crosses her path each day and in the pulse of everyday life which she began to feel during her previous stays in Madagascar. Invited to dialogue with the work of artist Madame Zo, Masami finds herself drawn to explore a field of research—that of the mix of materials—that leads her out of her comfort zone. What the two artists have incommon is the immeasurable exploration of freedom. Masami wants to free herself from form and the material mind and breaks free from the limits of weaving. She is experimenting with multi-sensory weaving, materials, fibers, shapes,volumes, colors, textures, sounds, waves and even smells.

MASAMI'S BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1975 in Tokyo (Japan), Masami obtained a bachelor’s degree in Art and Design from the University of Tokyo in 1998, where she studied the various techniques of traditional Japanese weaving and dyeing. She then lived in the US, New Zealand and France before moving to Reunion Island in2012, where she still lives and works. Often made from knitted, woven or knotted organic materials, her work explores light, waves and energies in a poetic and spiritual relationship to the visible and invisible forces of the world. She says: « My relationship to the universe is built up instinctively in my relationship to the space of forests, mountains, rivers, fields, the sea...A germination takes place from simple materials, the propagation and flowering of which I accompany to a certain extent in a meditative gestation. »

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