Yumiko Furukawa “Hai Kaburi” and Maki Kaoru “Between Mirrors”

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Yumiko Furukawa’s new installation, “Hai Kaburi” is a re-figuration of her exhibit “Awafuku and Komefuku” that was represented at Arts Festival Echigo Tsumari Triennial in 2003 combined with the work that reflects the 2014 transformation of her home town, Fukushima. “Awafuku and Komefuku” is a folk tale similar to the Cinderella story and “Hai Kaburi” is the Japanese title of Cinderella. Twelve years have passed since the creation of “Awafuku and Komefuku” and now Furukawa, in 2015 is a stepmother to two daughters. In re-reading the book of “Hai Kaburi” Furukawa, born in Aizu, Fukushima, feels “Hai” is a metaphor for “radioactivity”. Here, in this site-specific installation, the artist rethinks the meaning of “Cinderella / Hai Kaburi” through combining old and new works. Furukawa asks the question “where are the glass slippers in a world where the truth is hard to see.”
Maki Kaoru is an artist, who has sought to redirect our response to natural phenomena through empathetic and perceptual experiences. This transformation of natural phenomena takes place through the temporal elements of light, shadow, reflection, water, ice, wind, weather, and leaves. Her new body of work, created during her recent stay at an artist residency in Iceland, explores a place where the sun never goes down and the light of the arctic night offers a landscape of illusion. This endless dark blue world reversed and reflected, as if between mirrors, creates a paradoxical camouflage to be seen as physiological and somewhat emotional. Kaoru presents four new photographs and a video installation. The images evoke the fleetness of natural phenomenon like memories, feelings and the awareness of the passing of time.