Reflexion-- a genuine willingness to explore communication(2008)
REFLEXION is an intercultural experiment project in collaboration with Sittard/the Netherlands based fashion designer, Els Beusen and Beijing/China based artist, Elaine Wing-ah Ho. Beusen and I have presented both a book and clothing made following a one month residency at Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou, China as part of the Made in Mirrors project. Made in Mirrors is an intercultural mirroring experiment, an exchange model aimed at opening up perspectives between the Netherlands and China. The observations we’ve made from everyday life as well as during the workshop given at the South China Agricultural University College of the Arts in Guangzhou lead to the making of the book in collabolation with Wing-ah Ho.
buttoning(2008)
Buttoning is a project about the relationship between individual and object, in this case a button, the stories it may contain and the gestures associated with its use.
In 1945, having survived the convulsion of the Second World War, a woman in her mid-30s and her mother move into a state-owned apartment in the heart of a central European city. Here she reestablishes her small dressmaking business. [...] The apartment today still bears all traces of her life -- furniture, half-made dresses, thimbles, reels of cotton, business records, family photos and books... all much as they were left. (from a programme note for “Apartment in Oktober” by Chris Crickmay and Eva Karczag)
At some point later in time, a large plastic bag with more than a thousand old buttons makes its way from this apartment to me. They have since been stored away in my studio, carefully arranged by colour and size in little transparent envelopes.
For buttoning, Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga (Architect, Greece,1979) and I create an installation with these buttons -- their suggested pasts, presents and possible futures. During the exhibition visitors are invited to exchange a button for one of their own.
CV
2009 ‘INCONNU’ exhibition at Canvas op de 7e in Amsterdam the Netherlands
2009 ‘NUMBERED’ A/W 2009 collection in Berlin, Germany
2008 ‘buttoning’ exhibition at Atrium of the Duetsche in Berlin, Germany
2008 ‘REFLEXION’ MIM exhibition at Museum Het Domein in Sitterd, the Netherlands
2007 InFashion project of Asia-Pacific-Weeks in Berlin, Germany
2006 Finalist of ‘ITS#FIVE’, an international fashion design contest
2006 Graduated from Fashion department, ArtEZ Arnhem Academy of Art and Design in the Netherlands
2005 Internship as an assistant designer at Haider Ackermann
2004 ‘Universal Design’ prize at International Fashion Design Contest in Tokyo, Japan
Contact
website: hiroakikanai.com
mail: contact@hiroakikanai.com
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