La Galerie YellowFishArt est fière de présenter «Casa» un project de grand format, de  Kanako Noda.

“Casa”est une réflexion sur le thème du “chez-soi”. L’installation en papier de riz, un matériau évanescent traditionnellement employé pour créer des divisions dans les domiciles japonais, évoque la fragilité de notre appartenance à ce que nous appelons notre maison. Les dimensions de “Casa” rappellent celles d’un logement 4 1/2, chiffre qui suggère également la disposition traditionnelle des tatamis dans les huttes des ascètes japonais.Inspirée par les travaux de Hidetoshi Nagasawa (“Luogo dei Fiore”, 1985; “Giardino Rovesciato”, 2008), “Casa” s’inscrit dans une démarche transculturelle, empruntant à la fois aux traditions décoratives japonaises et au courant minimaliste occidental. L’enceinte en spirale de “Casa” matérialise la séparation symbolique entre extérieur et intérieur, clivage qui se trouve au cœur du concept d’habitation. La lumière pénètre et traverse les murs de “Casa”: le traditionnel et le contemporain se trouvent fusionnés, l’intérieur et l’extérieur s’enchevêtrent, le sentiment rassurant associé au chez-soi se mêle à l’aliénante angoisse de l’Autre.

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English version:

“Casa” is a rice paper meditation on the theme of ‘home’. The installation evokes the fragility of our belonging to a single dwelling through the use of an evanescent material traditionally reserved for interior separations in Japanese homes. In size, this house is a 4 1/2 – in this case, the traditional four and one half tatami mat size of the Japanese ascetic’s hillside meditation hut.

Inspired by such culture-bridging works as Hidetoshi Nagasawa’s ‘Luogo dei Fiore’ (1985) and ‘Giardino Rovesciato’ (2008) the spiral enclosure of “Casa” evokes the symbolic separation between inside and outside at the center of the concept of home. Light pours in through the walls of this Casa, borrowing at once from ancient Japanese minimal design and from 20th century Western minimalism to create a nexus between the traditional and the contemporary, between the inside and the outside, and between the cosy feeling of “home” and the alienating sense of an unknowable other.

Kanako Noda was born in 1980 in Kitakyushu, Japan. After graduating in cultural anthropology from Osaka University (Japan), she studied Art in Italy. Enrolling in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, she studied painting under contemporary Italian artists. While she was student she assisted british artist Davis Tremle and participated in several group exhibitions in Japan and in Italy ( “At-test” 2009) and solo shows including “Crune” (2008), “Yellow project” (2009) in Italy and “Seasaw” (2009) in Japan. Soon after the graduation from Bologna’s Accademia, she moved to Canada.
She lives and works in Montreal.

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