《Your hometown》2016-2019,Photo Projection,150cm x 200cm
The artwork "Your hometown" is a photo series I created while spending three years in Taiwan from 2016 to 2019. The photos were taken on the streets in Taiwan and inspired from the stories that the locals shared with me. It shows how myself as a Japanese developed new understanding and relationship with Taiwan by having the fictional reunion with a lost friend who was half Taiwanese and half Japanese.
Art could work as a therapy when we are facing the loss and in the process of recovering from it. Even after two decades from the loss, it will help us to think about the questions that would never have answers.
In the creating process, I tried to tell a story about Taiwan, Japan and the lost friend through the photographs. Her absence produced the space for imagination while reconfirming the fact that she is lost. I walked around the towns in Taiwan with my camera and imagined how her life would have been different if that took place here.
There is no way to know the answer to the question because the fact did not happen that way. However, art could give us another perspective to remember our memories. "Your hometown" might be different from how you remember it, but this is how I see it now.
The artwork "Your hometown" is a photo series I created while spending three years in Taiwan from 2016 to 2019. The photos were taken on the streets in Taiwan and inspired from the stories that the locals shared with me. It shows how myself as a Japanese developed new understanding and relationship with Taiwan by having the fictional reunion with a lost friend who was half Taiwanese and half Japanese.
Art could work as a therapy when we are facing the loss and in the process of recovering from it. Even after two decades from the loss, it will help us to think about the questions that would never have answers.
In the creating process, I tried to tell a story about Taiwan, Japan and the lost friend through the photographs. Her absence produced the space for imagination while reconfirming the fact that she is lost. I walked around the towns in Taiwan with my camera and imagined how her life would have been different if that took place here.
There is no way to know the answer to the question because the fact did not happen that way. However, art could give us another perspective to remember our memories. "Your hometown" might be different from how you remember it, but this is how I see it now.
宇田奈緒 (Nao Uda)
Nao Uda was born in Japan in 1983. After she received BFA Photography at School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2007, she travels and makes artwork in several cities. She works in several mediums such as drawings, photography and paintings that features her alter-ego called "Nu". She held many solo shows in Japan, USA, Canada and Taiwan since 2006. She has also presented her works in group shows in New York, Las Vegas, Canada, Japan, and Jordan. She has participated artist in residence program in Canada, Japan, Taiwan and USA. She currently lives and works in Taiwan. |
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Awards/Fellowship
2014-2015 Pola Art Foundation Fellowship (Japan)
2013 After Hours 2 open call winner (USA)
2004-2007 Yamaguchi Foundation Scholarship (Japan) 2004 Curriculum Honor Award (USA)
Awards/Fellowship
2014-2015 Pola Art Foundation Fellowship (Japan)
2013 After Hours 2 open call winner (USA)
2004-2007 Yamaguchi Foundation Scholarship (Japan) 2004 Curriculum Honor Award (USA)