Ai Natori
Photo: KYOTARO HAYASHI
Profile
Ai Natori
Born in Saga, Japan
Degree in Imaging Arts and Sciences, Musashino Art University
Studied painting from childhood under Isao Noda, a painter of the Action Art Association. Seeking a more abstract method of expression, she entered the Department of Imaging Arts at Musashino Art University, where she expanded her field of expression to VJ work, installation, and performance. In the spring of 2011, she went back to her roots and started working with drawings again.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2024″Hear the Silence“, biscuit gallery karuizawa, Karuizawa,Nagano
2023
“Blueness”, +D.A.Y.O.N.E GALLERY, Tokyo
2019
“BLUENESS”, UYart Gallery, Taichung
Group exhibitions
2023
“L0-Fi Diversity”, +DA.YO.NE.GALLERY, Tokyo
2019
“Japanese Artist Exhibition”, Google Office Taipei, Taipei
Art Fairs
MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2023
ART TAIPEI 2023
FOCUS ART FAIR PARIS 2022
Awards
2015
Newcomer Award at YOUNG ART TAIPEI
2014
KATHARINE HAMNETT LAB DESIGN AWARD
Concept
Blue is the color of the sea which is the origin of the creature. On the other hand it’s also the color of the death which lost the temperature. That it can be an image which disagrees seems to be an expression of a concept that life and death include each. That seems to be a sign which mixes unstably in order for 2 of something sometimes to become one and a sense in the moment which keeps changing. Many people are charmed by this color and try sublimation of various feeling including me so, and I think they may find sublimation of various feeling again. After earthquake disaster in 2011, sense in the moment which was being kept vaguely became clear for me. The world through which one lives so came to feel harder, more beautiful. I draw the environment, the strength of the person, me, the other ones and the moment which mixes unstably and beauty through the blue world.