Won a prize at a contest held in New York! Documentary video of contemporary artist Saori Kashiwamura is now available.

Contemporary artist Saori Kashiwamura, supported by EVO-LAB Ltd. (Location: Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, President: Mitsuaki Kubo), has won a contest and is now in New York. The documentary short video will be released on September 18 by NY Art Magazine and the artist's YouTube channel.

NY Art Magazine: https://japancontemporaries.com/jc-presents/saori/

Saori Kashiwamura's official YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/3OyTWXn2M38

Performance by Saori Kashiwamura (photo by Jake Price)

■About the public video

EVO-LAB, a beauty and lifestyle company, opened Ts, coffee dao, a Thai coffee café, in a space adjacent to a beauty salon in Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture in June this year.

Ts, coffee dao is committed to supporting artists. As part of this effort, we work with creators to plan and sell original products.

Recently, "Cyber Muse," a painting by contemporary artist Saori Kashiwamura, whom Ts, coffee dao supports, won the runner-up prize in the "NY Open Call Spring 2024" organized by the Art Incubation Association of Japan. Subsequently, the exhibition, "Japan Contemporaries Series 8, Juried Open Call, Stepping Into A World III," was held at the Tenri Cultural Institute gallery in New York from July 16 to 22, 2024. III" was held at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York, where the award-winning work was exhibited.

In addition, a performance was presented at a reception held on July 19, 2024.

For his performance debut abroad, he collaborated in performance with world-renowned artist Rainer Goenal, who is active in New York and represented Austria at the Venice Biennale in 1999. The performance was well received and a feature article was published in a local art magazine.

Footage of the above and the performance will be shown as a short documentary.

The film was shot, directed, and edited by Jake Price, a New York-based photojournalist who teaches at Columbia University, and is titled "Saori Kashimura, Cyber Muse: Dancing in the Clouds.

About the award-winning works

Cyber Muse

The theme of this work is a goddess of the near future. In the future, humans will coexist with androids and cyborgs. What kind of life will humans lead there, and what will they dream about? Standards of beauty will change, and the symbols of the gods must also change. I painted this work while thinking about the flow of time in which the way we live in the present will eventually become history and myth. Despite the cyber worldview, the technique used is watercolor. This is my attempt to evoke in the viewer a somewhat nostalgic and contradictory image that is unique to hand-painting, and to explore a unique retro-futurism aesthetic.

Performance 2 by Saori Kashiwamura (photo by Jake Price)

■About the Performance

Through the casting curation of NY-based art curator Kyoko Sato, who curated the exhibition, we had the opportunity to collaborate in performance with world-renowned NY-based artist Rainer Genar.

Rainer participated in "Dance for Cyber Muse," in which Saori Kashiwamura expresses the world of her paintings through dance, using physical expression.

The music used is a futuristic original track produced by TEGAMI (KENTARO), a priest and jewelry designer.

Outline of the documentary video

Name ： Documentary video of Saori Kashiwamura's entry into the New York market

Scheduled release date : September 18, 2024

Location ： Japan Contemporaries, an online art magazine in the U.S.

　　　　　　 Official YouTube channel of Saori Kashiwamura

URL ： NY Art Magazine

　　　　　　 https://japancontemporaries.com/jc-presents/saori/

Saori Kashiwamura YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/3OyTWXn2M38

Profile of Saori Kashiwamura

Contemporary artist. Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Spatial Design. Since around 2011, she has been working with digital and analog mixed media techniques. After the Corona Disaster, she will be working on a series of hand-painted watercolor paintings (Goddess of the Near Future) from 2024. He has participated in many art fairs and gallery exhibitions held in Japan and abroad. He has received many awards and prizes for his originality and technical skills. He also specializes in corporate collaborations, and has collaborated with popular characters such as Tatsunoko Productions, Beddiebop, and Postp Pet (MDP GALLERY project), expanding his range of expression. Last month, at the end of August, she exhibited her works at "BSP for SBW," a beauty wellness event held by BEAUTY STAND PLUS at Marui Shinjuku Main Building.

Links to Saori Kashiwamura: https://lit.link/saorikashimura

■Future Prospects

A solo exhibition by Saori Kashiwamura in Tokyo is scheduled to be held this winter. In addition, art collaborations with artists active in New York and other events are planned.

In addition, we are planning to sell a new version of coffee beans in an original package of Ts coffee dao's artist collaboration.

■Art Incubation Association

An innovative and powerful platform for introducing Japanese art to the U.S., it is led by Motokazu Adachi, a leading Japanese broadcaster who has won Emmy and Galaxy Awards, and Kyoko Sato, a curator living in New York and known worldwide for introducing Japanese culture. They also publish the U.S. magazine Japan Contemporaries and introduce Japanese art to the world together with their American staff.

■Company Profile

Company name : EVO-LAB Ltd.

Location: JBC Building 1F, 6-17-10 Nishibori, Sakura-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama

Representative ： Mitsuaki Kubo

Business : Beauty and restaurant business

Company website URL : https://www.tscoffee-dao.com/

Instagram ： https://www.instagram.com/tscoffeed_a_o

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