15. Oktober – 13. November 2022
Duo Exhibition with Hanae Utamura
WAITINROOM, Tokyo
“Doppelwalzenschrämlader”
A review of the exhibition “STRATA – Naho Kawabe & Hanae Utamura” by Andrew Durbin FRIEZE online.
STRATA
“Doppelwalzenschrämlader”
Category Archives: Charcoal
“Doppelwalzenschrämlader”
Field Study: two patterns, two circles
charcoal, motor, barrier tape
https://vimeo.com/523454454
A Project of “Artist in Quarantine” by nachtspeicher23 e.V., Hamburg
Blooming Black
charcoal, string, light bulb, battery
Exhibition: Boxes Museum, Guangzhou (CN)
Collection: Boxes Museum, Guangzhou (CN)
Circle of Everyday Life
charcoal, motor, string, concrete, metal, feather, size variable
The line over charcoal dust sprinkled on the floor shows the jagged line of the Berlin Wall, boundary between East and West Berlin. A spring spinning in a circle, driven by a small motor, wipes away the charcoal dust. The circle describes the loop line of Berlin S-Bahn running also between 1961 and 1989 (time of the Berlin Wall) across the border,
Exhibition: Waitingroom, Tokyo (JP)
An authentic woman solves all knots
single-channel video, 49’15, camera: Saskia Bannasch, Naho Kawabe
The Video shows an action of woman’s hands (re)uniting 3kg fragments of charcoal to a figure of a tree. During the action the Women explains her private memory about her mother and the political and the everyday life situation in Berlin. They have moved in 1956 from DDR/GDR to West Germany. The way of packing using string she has learned by her mother. Strings were considerably used for post-sending before the plastic tape become prevalent. Her mother has sent many packets from West to East Germany during the 1960′ – 70’s. There was no tape in those days. The tying-technique and this special hand movements will soon be lost.
„Eine echte Frau löst jeden Knoten / An authentic woman solves all knots“. This proverb was spoken by a high school teacher in West Germany. When the women in the video heard by her teacher, she was felt provocated. To become a woman needs such a high hurdle .
Exhibitions: Waitingroom, Tokyo (JP) / Boxes Museum, Guangzhou (CN)
Horizon
Charcoal, glass
Exhibtions: Fukuoka Art Museum, (JP) / Frappant, Hamburg (DE) / Take Maracke & Partner, Kiel (DE) / Schloß Agarthenburg, Agarthenburg (DE)
Images: Catalogue “In Search Of Critical Imagination“
Restrict
Exhibtion: 8. Kunstfrühling, Bremen (DE)
Images: Catalogue “8. Kunstfrühling” / Catalogue “DELIKATELINIEN” / Book “Transitorisch”
Omnes una manet nox
Charcoal, glass, wood, each 40 x 30 x 5 cm
Exhibtion: Kunsthaus Hamburg (DE)
Image: Catalogue “Observer Effect“
Sealed!
Charcoal, spotlight, size variable
Exhibitions: Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo (JP) / Märkisches Museum Witten (DE)
Images: Broschüre “Shiseido Art Egg 05” / Catalogue “boesner art award 2012” / Catalogue “Observer Effect” / Book “Transitorisch“
Wenn Licht sich staut …
Charcoal, 198 x 364 cm
Exhibtion: Kunsthaus Hamburg (DE)
Image: Catalogue “Observer Effect“