Aktuelle StudentenInnen: MANA YAMAGUCHI

                           

                                                                                       

Pictures - Left to right:

Stilllife (2014)  Our Future (2014); 

Our Futur 1620×1303mm Acrylic, Ink on Paper (2013)  The Boat Sails On (2012)

 Our Map 455×530mm (2012)  Map 909×727mm (2012)

Drawing For "family" (2012)  Boy Meets Girl Girl Meets Boy (2012)

March (2010)

Biography  

 

1987    Born in Tokyo, Japan

2010    Graduated in Bachelor of Fine Art Painting from 
            Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan

2011    Participates in the Exchange Program 
            in Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany 

2013    Graduated in Master of Fine Art Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts,
            Tokyo, Japan

            Participates in the Exchange scholarship Program of DAAD
            in Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany

Mana lives and works in Stuttgart, German About the Work    My work deals with shifting of the means or positions of image. However, usually the context of image requires the feeling or morality, I have thought that image itself is originally a neutral thing which apart from such a criterion. If a image has both the contexts or symbol about itself and the function as a vessel for them, more interesting issue for me is the latter which image as a form or object being removed the contents. For me, it is one of a important process to remove the contents by hand and to make image a empty object. Dealing images with a tactile act enable to feel things physically, and light up the other side of a image. That is something that can also be said about narrative. Even familiar everyday life be narrated as a story, when the time had passed. but there are still another realities that was not adopted for narrative. Each one live with only some of the facts that one chosen, but I always want to be open to another realities letting peep their faces out, and  feel more possibility in the things  be almost forgotten. In my work, both image and narrative mostly do not be exposed.  That's because my interest is not to disclose something. What I consider is how those new another realities be in effects through the medias such as painting or sculpture.