toco toco - AKI INOMATA, Artist
New season of Japanese Creative profiles at new Archipel home presents artist whose work is concerned with technology and nature, most notably for designing new shells for Hermit Crabs:
AKI INOMATA is contemporary artist whose universe revolves around creating original works with animals and living creatures. Some of her most distinctive work includes building original “shelter” art pieces for hermit crabs or creating pieces of material from clothes to give them to bagworms.
We will follow her to DMM.make AKIBA, a hardware development studio that hosts the latest 3D printers, laser cutters, among other technologies, where INOMATA works on her designs. We will then head over to HUNCH, her studio, before going to Terrada Art Complex, where INOMATA’s work is showcased as part of the Asian Art Award finalists.
INOMATA will tell us more about her views on living creatures and the relationships humans hold with their pets and animals, while on a tour a Intermediatheque, a museum with a focus on natural history born from a collaboration between Japan Post and Tokyo University.
AKI INOMATA Official Website here
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