Arko
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BIOGRAPHY
Arko lives and works in Japan. She has exhibited at international art fairs including Masterpiece, Design Miami, PAD London, TEFAF Maastricht and FOG San Francisco. She has also exhibited extensively in international group shows such as Changing Attitude, Japan, 2019; Loewe Baskets during Milan Design Week, Italy, 2019; Object Come from the Earth, Japan, 2018; and Say No to Limits, China, 2007. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the Loewe Craft Prize and exhibited at the Design Museum, UK.
Arko’s sculptures use rice straw, a by-product of the rice plant. The material previously played a significant role in everyday Japanese life and was used to make items such as shoes, coats, blankets, and food wrappers. Now its main use is for the production of traditional straw festoons, which are holy ornaments for Shinto New Year ceremonies. It has almost faded out from modern life, despite large volumes of rice crops still being produced for food consumption. Arko’s practice aims to reinvigorate the material by creating something new with it, to highlight it again within contemporary society and inspire feelings of respect for the natural world that provides us with sustenance.
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Works
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ArkoThe Cave in The Sky, 2024Rice Straw
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ArkoA Gust of Wind on The Cliff, 2024Rice straw
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ArkoComposition Quartetto, 2024Rice Straw
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ArkoComposition Trio, 2024Rice Straw
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ArkoComposition Marcato (D) Red Shadow, 2024Rice Straw
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ArkoA Head-sea Over the Night Sky, 2024Rice Straw
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ArkoUntitled, 2023Rice straw
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ArkoAfternoon in the Valley, 2023Rice Straw
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ArkoA Head-sea Over the Night Sky, 2022Rice Straw
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ArkoUntitled, 2020Rice Straw
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ArkoUntitled , 2020Rice Straw
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ArkoComposition Marcato (A), 2021Rice Straw
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EXHIBITIONS
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Dreamscape: Design Miami 2024
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Monolith: Tefaf Maastricht
Art Fair 9 - 14 March 2024 -
PAD London
Art Fair 10 - 15 October 2023At PAD London we will showcase ‘Chamber’, a global survey of material-led, specialist endemic design. Chamber speaks to the abundance of the earth from which our artist-designer-makers sustainably source and...
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