Izumi Kato and Fundación Casa Wabi are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s IZUMI KATO PRIZE:
Karu Miyoshi
Osaka, 2001
Working across performance, painting, video, installation, and fashion, Miyoshi explores how clothing affects the body and how sharing a garment among multiple bodies can blur the boundaries between individuals.
Through the creation of large-scale works, Miyoshi examines corporeality and collectivity within the shifting relationship between the self and others.
Chiaki Yamamoto
Fujisawa, 1993
She creates communal dining experiences and multimedia installations that examine identity, migration, and sovereignty. Her ongoing project, Boundless Table, dissolves hierarchies through circular meals of Bhutanese origin, engaging communities in Japan and internationally.
Her practice addresses how the “synchronized dreams” of globalization threaten the diversity of cultural sovereignties.
This prize was established with Kato’s hope that Japanese artists under the age of 40, from all disciplines—such as visual arts, design, music, among others—can experience Fundación Casa Wabi’s residency program.
The judges for this edition were Ikko Yokoyama, Senior Curator and Head of Design and Architecture at M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture, and Andrea Bustillos Duhart, curator at Fundación Casa Wabi.
