ART COLLABORATION KYOTO 2025

Following the thread of “The World in Continuous Weaving,” this exhibition explores how artists from diverse cultural backgrounds reconnect body, material, and memory through their own visual languages. Through sculpture, painting, video, and mixed media, these six artists transform fragments of everyday life — a rope, a brushstroke, a song, a memory — into forms that carry both fragility and vitality, revealing, in subtle ways, how the world continually takes shape.

Maria Nepomuceno’s rope-and-bead sculptures extend the lineage of Brazilian craft into organic constellations of form; in Bi Rongrong’s work, weaving unfolds in another register — not merely as technique but as reflection and transformation. Layering textiles, lace, and embroidery onto copper plates, she translates traditional craft and cultural symbols through her own visual language, reassembling them into a contemporary structure of perception where Eastern and Western sensibilities intertwine. Within painting, Janaina Tschäpe dissolves bodies, myths, and landscapes into fluid abstractions; Chihhung Liu reshapes fragments of scenery and memory into layered images between recognition and reverie; and Yang Shu’s Where?(2014) series presses painting toward raw immediacy, where gesture and color release instinctive energy. In counterpoint, Chen Qiulin’s Another Day (2014- 2016) dwell on the unhurried rhythms of a Dong minority village, where women’s songs and daily acts form an embodied archive resisting erasure.

Placed together, these works do not resolve into a single image. They weave traditions and contemporary urgencies, personal memory and shared landscape, abstraction and lived reality. What connects them is not similarity but resonance — a set of crossings where different cultural lineages, through the language of contemporary art, open onto questions that belong to us all.