Held from October 12th to November 4th at the Kanazawa Yuwaku Sousaku no Mori Center for Crafts and Culture, Yuki Nagashima’s solo exhibition, Something happening somewhere far away, featured 26 prints made using the monotype technique. A follow up to her last show, Before Falling Asleep, Yuki’s latest exhibition presented more of the work she produced at Zea Mays Printmaking. The pieces featured were all centred on the theme of the universe. Yuki describes; “It’s a place where anything and everything can happen, and is about a phenomenon that may be occurring somewhere far away and not in a specific place.”
Back in 2021, Yuki participated in A.I.R. for two months at the Kanazawa Yuwaku Sousaku no Mori Center for Crafts and Culture. At that time, she read the catalogue of the INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SAFER PRINTMAKING 2019 KANAZAWA . In the book, she discovered Zea Mays Printmaking and was immediately drawn to their eco conscious ethos. Wanting to shift to non-toxic techniques for her own printmaking, in 2023 Yuki was lucky to get sponsored by the Pola Art Foundation and partook in a residency at their studio.
Whilst attending her residency, Yuki was contacted by the Kanazawa Yuwaku Sousaku no Mori Center for Crafts and Culture asking if she would be interested in having a solo exhibition upon her return to Japan. She comments: “I gladly accepted. I knew they had a large exhibition space and it was where I discovered Zea Mays Printmaking. I felt like it was fate.”
When it came to producing the prints for the show at Zea Mays Printmaking, Yuki set herself a goal to make one piece a day. She describes; “I decided to keep producing output, to keep moving without stopping. It was almost like a training for me. I felt the need to impose this challenge on myself.”
All 26 prints included in the show were created as monotypes: single prints with no edition. Each piece began with drawings produced in coloured pencils on palm-sized paper. For her larger pieces, Yuki would draw on a PETG plate using Akua inks. Fixing the paper and plate together, she passes the print through the press many times while adding to it. The resulting artworks are full of depth and multiple layers.
When asked what inspired the collection and her fascination with the universe, Yuki told us; “I try to look at this chaotic world from various angles, poetically summarise it through my own filter, and visualise it. I symbolically depict what is happening in this world, or what may be happening.”
Yuki is currently in the process of moving back to Tokyo, where she was born and raised, and is looking forward to taking on new opportunities to present her work after recently completing her 10 year period of training.
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