NATSUMI SAKAMOTO
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    • Walking Along The Boundary
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    • I am a forest
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A Rowan Wards off Witches 
installation (film, woodcut print, drawings) 
2019-2020
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exhibition view at place MAK, Seoul, South Korea 
Memories in Movement, 12/Oct - 30 Oct, 2019

solo show at Robert Gordon University, Art and Heritage Collection LZ Gallery, 2020
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Supported by: Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists,
the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan
 
助成:平成30年度文化庁新進芸術家海外研修制度

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スコットランドと日本にルーツをもつナナカマドの木の迷信を巡る作品。庭にナナカマドを魔女除けとして植えるスコットランドの習慣について植物学と民俗学を中心に研究し、口承文化がどのように現代まで受け継がれているのか、もしくは失われているのかを探求する。スコットランドの魔女狩りが起こった土地を中心に旅し、地元女性達の声を集めた映像作品では、現代の女性にとって魔女狩りという出来事はどのような繋がりを持つのかを問いかける。

​The rowan tree (sorbus), native to Scotland and Japan, features in both countries’ folklore and also appeared in a memory shared by her grandmother. Inspired by a Scottish superstition “to grow a rowan tree in your garden to protect your family from witches”, she explores where and how this oral tradition remains today. Traveling across Scotland to the sites of the witch trials, interviews with local women reflect on what witch-hunts mean to them today.

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group show Memories in Movement at placeMAK, 2019
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solo show at Robert Gordon University, Art and Heritage Collection LZ Gallery, 2020
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  • Home
  • cv
  • statement
  • work
    • REACH, GATHER, HOLD
    • Knitting the Intangible Voices
    • Speculative Fiction: Practicing Collectivity
    • Experiment of WORK SONG 1
    • She casts a curse into the sea
    • A Rowan Wards off Witches
    • I remember hearing it from my mum and my dad
    • The Interview with a Witch
    • MOTHER STONE
    • MOTHERS ROOM
    • My Grandma's Apple Pie
    • Listen to her spinning wheel
    • Unforgettable Landscape (ROWAN TREE)
    • Anonymous moments
    • Unforgettable Landscape (pigeon loft)
    • Unforgettable Landscape (Hualien)
    • Memory of Place
    • Follow to your destination
    • Walking along the river
    • Walking Along The Boundary
    • BLIND DRAWING
    • I am a forest
    • unforgettable landscapes painting project
    • drawing
  • INTERVIEW
  • exhibition review
  • contact
  • blog
  • TEXT
    • Women’s Work Songs, solidarity and memory: The media to record the hidden voice
    • HOME(S)
    • Knitting the Intangible Voices publication
  • Dismantling Motherhood 上映会