"Ginza"
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Ginza Project Executive Committee
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
Reiwa 3(2021) 1st Term Creation Grant Category I Single-Year Grant
Business Overview
Focusing on the Ginza, which can be said to be a symbol of the “Tokyo-ness ” of Japan's modern times, I visited the Ginza not only in Tokyo but also all over the country, and tried to think about the future Tokyo and Japan from the accumulation of small stories from all over the country by connecting the stories I encountered there across time and regions.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 26th (Sat)
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 - 18th (Sun) - Venues
- Morioka Shoten
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
[Ginza Project Executive Committee]
Kaoru Endo
Born in Osaka in 1989. In 2013, he graduated from the Department of Dyeing and Weaving, Major in Crafts, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts. In 2016, he graduated from ARUSUSHIMURA, the organizer of Fukumi SHIMURA (Pongee weaving, holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property).
In Okinawa and Tohoku as well as in Japan and overseas, he continues to unravel the relationship between local crafts, history, and politics, which are closely related to daily life, and presents his works mainly using dyeing and weaving techniques. He mainly creates rags, parachutes, ship sails, etc. The core of his work is to expand the essence of his craft by using his own body to performatively trace the life of cloth and the life of people.
His recent major exhibitions include 13 (2019, Shiseido Gallery/Tokyo), (2021, University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts/Tokyo), and (2021, Okinawa Prefectural Museum/Okinawa). It won the art egg grand prize at the "13 shiseido art egg."