NATSUMI SAKAMOTO
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    • 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
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    • Women’s Work Songs, solidarity and memory: The media to record the hidden voice
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left: I don't remember from whom I have heard that the rowan tree kept the witches away, it's something that you almost know.

right: I remember hearing it from my mum and my dad 
silkscreen 297x420mm
2020


exhibition view at NITO, Tokyo 2020>>

​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シリーズ作品。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した。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、語られた言葉を使ったビジュアルポエトリーを版画にした作品。現代の女性にとって魔女狩りという出来事がどのような繋がりを持つのかを問いかける。


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group show NITO02 at NITO, 2020 photo: 石原新一郎 Shinichiro Ichihara
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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