I smelled a little chlorine on my way here.

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

Tamana Akazawa

subsidy category

start-up subsidy

Grant Type

single year individual

FY 2023 (4) Startup Subsidy

270 kilometer escape (2024) Photo by Uhito Matsuo

Michi (2024) Photo: Uhito Matsuo

30 Poems Divided (2024) Photo by Uhito Matsuo

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Business Overview

Tamana Akazawa and Yuto Imaeda jointly produced a booklet of linked poems and their works will be exhibited. Although they shared a common language, Akazawa wrote poetry and Imaeda tanka. While weaving words together, the poem melts into the minute memories of a unique place, and the reader becomes a viewer and proceeds to read the work. The resulting booklet is something to take home, like a small device that reproduces time and space. We set each other's point of view as "others" and tried to see how the other's gaze resonated in the production and created a new form of poetry.

implementation period

Tuesday, November 19, 2024 to Monday, December 31, 2024

Place of implementation

KOGANEI ART SPOT Chateau 2F (Koganei, Tokyo)

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Profile

Tamana Akazawa

Graduated from the Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts

Graduated from the Department of Advanced Art and Expression, Tokyo University of the Arts

Faced with her own physical ailments, she creates works from a personal research perspective. He was almost in remission at present, but he had symptoms of schizophrenia, and his body was swayed by auditory hallucinations and delusions. By creating poems retrospectively, he felt that he could recover as a person who had the initiative of his body, and he still creates paintings and poems.