What is the "Blue Ocean" for each of us in modern society?
■Exhibition Overview
Exhibition title: Kensuke Miyazaki "The Floating People"
Date: December 13th (Friday) – December 21st (Saturday), 2024
Opening hours: 11:00 – 19:00 (until 17:00 on Saturdays)
Closed: 15th (Sun) & 16th (Mon)
Exhibition details:
https://artforthought.jp/blogs/upcoming-exhibitions/KensukeMiyazaki-FloatingPeople
■Exhibition Overview
ART FOR THOUGHT will be holding the exhibition "Floating People" by Miyazaki Kensuke from December 13th to 21st.
With the theme of "Super Happy," Miyazaki has been developing mural projects incorporating various cultures from around the world in collaboration with local people. This exhibition is a painting exhibition based on a mural workshop in Palau. What do the "blue oceans" that stretch across Japan, a faraway country, inspire us when we view them? What does the "blue ocean" of each of us in modern society refer to? Like the fish that live and the people who swim in the sea of Palau, I would like to stop walking and drift and question what "Super Happy" is.
(Curated by Keiichiro Tao)
* An opening reception will be held from 6:00 p.m. on Friday, December 13th .
(There will be an artist talk in the first 30 minutes.)
We look forward to seeing you all.
■Artist Profile
Kensuke Miyazaki
Born in Saga City in 1978.
After graduating from the Master's Program in Art Studies at the University of Tsukuba, he moved to London and began creating art.
With the theme of Super Happy, he creates artworks that make people feel happy the moment they see them.
He is currently the director of "Over the Wall," an initiative to preserve murals around the world, and has worked with local residents to preserve murals in slums in Kenya in 2015, a national hospital in Timor-Leste in 2016, a collaborative project with UNHCR in Ukraine in 2017, a women's prison in Ecuador in 2018, a collaborative project with Doctors Without Borders in Haiti in 2019, a children's hospital in Pakistan in 2022, a collaborative project with children with disabilities in Kenya in 2023, and at the international airport in Palau, the country's gateway, in 2024.
■ART FOR THOUGHT
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From the press release of AFT Co., Ltd.
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