ordinary person
Business Overview
"Ordinary people" who collect, record and create works through interviews of "ordinary people" that are not recorded. The artist Akiko WAKE dealt with the theme of "normal" from her own life and background.
Normal. "I have to be normal," "I can't be normal," "I want to be normal," "I don't like normal," "It's too normal." The word “normal ” is used in many ways, but even more than a run-of-the-mill experience, the core is hazy, like a cloud in the sky. "Normal" changes gradually over time and regionality, and before you know it, it affects people. But the lives of ordinary people rarely survive.
A collection of stories about nameless people and normalcy has been created both on the web and in print (ZINE). The words are like water particles that come into contact with a cloud, and each particle reconstructs a new cloud.
Artist: Akiko Waki Photography: Hiroshi Takashi, Takayuki Shukunobe
- Period of Activity / Project
- Exhibition and distribution of zines: August 26 (Tue), 2025 - Sunday, August 31
Website: August 26 (Tue), 2025 - Sunday, August 31 - Venues
- ATELIER 5-3-12 Minamiazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Profile
[Akiko Waki]
Born in Tokyo. Completed a master's course in visual transmission design at Musashino Art University. While working as a designer, she started her art career during childbirth and childcare. He worked on "Rooftop Section" as an artist in the International Art Festival Tokyo Biennale 2020-2021.
As an adolescent, she experienced life with people of various races and disabilities in areas where minority communities gather in America, and through her own child-rearing, she looks at things that expand from reality. In the modern era of complexity and high context, with the theme of things that are there, things that are nothing, and escape, we are working on making things that can be shared by people through a method that embodies (Visualization and Experiencing) fictionality and existing possibilities.