Artist Statement
I pick up and rearrange elements of nature – light, wind, heat, gravity, time and so on.
I make a place where people focus on their changes within, and this will be the opportunity to use our imaginations.
I pick up and rearrange elements of nature – light, wind, heat, gravity, time and so on.
I make a place where people focus on their changes within, and this will be the opportunity to use our imaginations.
Rina Ohyama
1984 Born in Ibaraki,Japan
2011 Completed Master Course at Kyoto University of Art and Design,Department of Creative Arts and Media.
2009 Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design, Mixed Media Course.
2019 Nakanojo Biennale 2019,Gunma,Japan
2015 NishiAizu International Art Village,Fukushima,Japan
2016 “Changes of the season”,Takashi Saito Gallery,Ibaraki
2015 “Dripping Time”,CAFÉ FACON,Tokyo
2011 “Echo of things”,ART ZONE,Kyoto
2008 “The beginning of unexpected”,Halo Galo,Kyoto
2019 Nakanojo Biennale 2019
2018 “SICF19”,SPIRAL,Tokyo
2016 “Cototoka 2016 We are here”,NishiAizu International Art Village,Fukusima
2015 “Exchange (y)our world”, NishiAizu International Art Village,Fukusima
2012 “Between Two dimensions and Three dimensions”,ART ZONE Kyoto
2010 “Is art an explosion?”,Suita History And Cultura Community Development Center Hamayashiki,Osaka
2008 “The 6” Daikanyama Hillside Terrace,Tokyo
2015 Cover art for Rotary Club Monthly Magazine
2008 Wall art for Children’s Ward, Osaka Employee’s Pension Hospital
2006 Wall art for Osaka Maternal and Child Medical Center
2005 Member of Supporting Staff for “Artist Summit Kyoto 2005”
I made this work to break the boundary between the work itself and the space around it, and to make a connection between them. This work becomes complete when the surroundings are reflected in the work. I also use the reflected surroundings, or light, as one of the materials for my work. This is because I intend to make people aware of the ever-changing light in their everyday lives.
I made this work to break the boundary between the work itself and the space around it, and to make a connection between them. This work becomes complete when the surroundings are reflected in the work. I also use the reflected surroundings, or light, as one of the materials for my work. This is because I intend to make people aware of the ever-changing light in their everyday lives.
I draw a 4-meter circle on grass field, and pull out the grass inside the circle. A circle of soil appears in the grass. As time goes on, grass grows inside the circle. The circle of soil gradually merges with the grass field, and disappears.
We imagine the caramel that used to be there from the creased paper.
I collect the dregs of coffee I drank and the sand of places I visited. And I paste them on the panel like a diary.
In this work, time is visualized by the laws of nature, such as capillarity and gravity. In a dark warehouse, two kinds of liquids seep from both ends of the thread and blend at the lowest point, emitting pale light. The drop of pale light falls onto the floor along a thread . Drops fall along many threads at various speeds. Drops of light create a puddle on the floor, and gradually fades into dark.
I visualize time through the movements of ripples on the water surface. A water drop made by gravity falls from the ceiling and crashes onto the table-top filled with water. The drop vertically falls through space, onto the surface, and slowly creates water ripples. The ripples keeps spreading and shrinking on the surface and eventually they disappear. Through seeing this work, we can imagine how water travels through the Earth's water cycle.
