New artist arrival: Yumiko Ono

Japanese visual artist Yumiko Ono arrives at the artist residence.
Artistic focus: Installation, Visual Arts

Yumiko Ono's practice centers on the concept of utopia—an imagined ideal place. Through government-sponsored studies in various countries, she has developed in-depth architectural research exploring the ideological contrasts between the Eastern and Western Blocs and Japan’s unique position at these intersections.

By creating fictive architecture using "anti-architectural" materials such as ceramics, paper, and textiles, she expresses the fragility and fictionality of utopia itself.

During her residency the artist aims to research Shanghai’s architectural hybridity and develop modular installations with local textile traditions and artisans.

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