SICF23 EXHIBITION Grand Prize Artist Exhibition

Namae Myoji “Babel and Utopia”

Date：10 (wed) –26 (fri) May 2023　11:00 – 20:00
Venue：Spiral Garden（Spiral 1F）
5-6-23, Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Admission Free

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Organized by : Wacoal Art Center
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Collaborated with : CG-ARTS, Matsumura Kogei Co.,Ltd.
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Launched in 2000, Spiral Independent Creators Festival (SICF) is an open-call art festival that aspires to discover, foster, and support emerging artists and designers. We held an exhibition of the winner of the 23 Spiral Independent Creators Festival EXHIBITION Grand Prize, Namae Myoji, in Spiral Garden (Spiral 1F).

Namae Myoji uses her own gender identity and her past experiences and explore the female body, gender, identity in relation with consumption to create works on the themes surrounding these issues.
“Girls’ toys” often appear as a motif, expressing how children, from an early age, are oriented in their taste depending on their gender, how it may limit them in the exploration of various “identities” and the impact it has on the role they will play in the society.
In recent years, in addition to exploring her own experiences, she has developed multi-layered installations bringing together various mediums such as video and three-dimensional works, using stories like myths and plays, creating a theatrical space. Her work embraces diverse and complex current issues, that we tend to internalize, such as gender and sexuality, as well as family related matters.

In this exhibition, we presented her new video installation, exploring themes related to violence such as the sexual violence hidden in social structures, inspired by “The Metamorphoses” of Roman poet Ovid and monsters from the Greek mythology.

SICF23 EXHIBITION Winners Exhibition

Together with the exhibition of the Grand Prize winner, 9 awards winners of SICF23 EXHIBITION showcased their art works and items.

^{SICF23 EXHIBITION Winners Exhibition　Photo: TADA (YUKAI)}

_{Creators: Mizuko Kaji (Semi-Grand Prize), Andy Ayaka Yamamoto (Semi-Grand Prize), ARETOKORE COKO (Natsumi Araki Award), Yuga Soma-Uéno (Shinji Ohmaki Award), Yuta Baba (Koichi Suzuno Award), Manaho Hamasaki (Tamae Hirokawa Award), Ryuhei Sakurai (Spiral Award), Tomoya Okoshi (Daily Art Award), rose life with you (Audience Award)}

Date：10 (wed) – 25 (thu) May 2023　11:00 – 20:00
Venue：Spiral Garden（Spiral 1F）
Admission Free

_{Inquiries：03-3498-1171（Spiral）
Organized by : Wacoal Art Center
Planned by : Spiral
Collaborated with : CG-ARTS, Matsumura Kogei Co.,Ltd.
Graphic design by : WALTZ. LLC}

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