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10dence – Japan air 2025
会期: 2025-3-15(土) ~ 2025-4-15(火)
作家:10dence Platform

concept – Japanese Elements – 10dence Platform – Japan air 2025
Well known and recognized for its rich cultural heritage, Kyoto is a unique city from both domestic and international perspectives. Besides its preserved traditions, Kyoto also actively embraces new cultures and trends. The combination of these traditional and contemporary elements created Kyoto’s unique and characteristic atmosphere. Kyoto has a long history as a meeting point for many cultures and those who conserve and sustain them. Honoring these thoughts, we follow the trajectory that our residency should reflect to be an activity for artistic creation where people can gather, exchange, and connect with one another, while bringing a high level artistic expression and research. The ‘Japanese Elements’ concept for the artist in residence in March-April 2025 in Japan, is a reflection and a perpetual dialogue, between abstraction and representation across histories and cultures at the core of their individual art practices. The unifying theme within the ‘Japanese Elements’ concept is the individual as well as collective investigations into the possibilities to transfer their impressions and experiences in Japan by means of contemporary art in general. The development of new works during this residency, would strongly be inspired by Japanese heritage and culture in a wider perspective. Researching into possible conceptual values, angles and intentions for the 2025 residency in Japan, provided a large quantity of artistic room to move. The conceptual value for the 2025 residency embodies the intention and target that the art created during the residency will stimulate for change to the mindset of the general public and bring inspiration to improve on issues related to the preservation of cultural heritage as well as to generate an overall base for a conscious discussion on the preservation of our habitat worldwide.
コンセプト「Japanese Elements」10denceプラットフォーム – Japan AIR 2025
京都はその豊かな文化遺産で広く知られており、国内外の視点から見てもユニークな都市です。保存された伝統だけでなく、京都は新しい文化やトレンドも積極的に受け入れています。これらの伝統的要素と現代的要素が融合することで、京都特有の特徴的な雰囲気が生み出されています。京都は、多様な文化が交わり、それを保存し支える人々が集う場所として長い歴史を持っています。この思想を尊重し、私たちのアーティスト・イン・レジデンスは、人々が集い、交流し、つながり合いながら、高度な芸術的表現と研究を行う場であるべきだと考えています。
2025年3月から4月にかけて日本で開催されるアーティスト・イン・レジデンスのための「Japanese Elements」コンセプトは、抽象と具象、歴史と文化の間における対話を、各アーティストの個々のアート実践の核として反映し続けるものです。この「Japanese Elements」コンセプトの統一テーマは、アーティストが日本での印象や体験を、現代アートという手段を通じて個々にも集団的にも探求し、それを表現する可能性を模索することにあります。このレジデンス期間中に制作される新しい作品は、広い視点から見た日本の遺産と文化に強くインスパイアされることになるでしょう。
2025年のレジデンスに向けたコンセプトの価値、視点、意図を探求する過程で、アーティストたちにとって幅広い創作の可能性が提供されました。このレジデンスのコンセプト価値は、レジデンス期間中に生み出されるアートが、一般市民の思考を変革させる刺激となること、文化遺産の保存に関連する課題の改善に向けたインスピレーションをもたらすこと、そして世界的な環境保全の重要性について意識的な議論を促進するための基盤を築くことを意図し、目指しています。
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Writer and educator Michael Vecellio lives in Philadelphia PA USA. After a 20 year career in public education, Michael has dived into the art world assisting Francis with her many projects and exhibitions. As a writer he creates poetry inspired by the work of the artists within the artist residencies and is based on his reactions and interactions to and with them. During this residency Michael Vecellio will write a review of the residency and the artists as well as the guests we invited. This review will be used for a special edition of Inspirational Art Magazine on this Japan AIR residency as published by chief editor John Hopper and to be accompanied with photographic material from the participating artists.









Residency guests
Kenryo Hara (JP)
The root of the Japanese characters “Kanji” are from ancient China. It has been said that when ancient people inquired the will of the Gods they would use “Kanji” to compose their reply. To understand these ancient people please consider the lifestyles they cultivated, for instance affections for their family, their values and their connection with to the communities, despite the cruelty they have endured fighting those adversaries who had plundered and persecuted them.
To embrace “Kodaimoji” as a creative practice is to know and understand how the ancient lived. It goes without saying ,that I have adopted the life force of human being as my primary theme for my “Kodaimoji”.
I believe that it is essential to discover and understand these characters that have formed one of the bases for Japanese culture, in order to find myself. The intention of my “Kodaimoji” drawings are to collaborate with the viewer by stirring sympathy for the content by the audience. By transferring “my strength of life” into the lines drawn in Sumi I hope that I can express my inner mind to my work. My goal is to touch lives of my viewers through my work.


Kenryo Hara (JP)
Kouji Ohno (JP)
Japanese sculptor Kouji Ohno’s work conveys the experience of an infinite space through the human body. A master of figurative sculpture, Ohno specialized in anatomy, but his interest in the body goes beyond the visible physical dimension, striving to eliminate the prevalent distinction between matter and spirit, consciousness and space.
The site-specific installation featured here carries the viewer into another dimension devoid of gravity.
It is a boundless world in which interwoven figures float in space. The wood-carved male and female body sculptures hovering on either side of the hall turn out to be thin, hollow shells of wood emptied of their content. They are open at both ends as a vessel through which the energy of life may flow.
Additional holes serve as a reminder of their ephemerality and of the fragile nature of existence.
The figures suspended overhead expand into the space, independent of a body and unbound by a differentiated identity. They are made of illuminated silk threads woven together to form a net,
reminiscent of a neural web in the human brain in which dispatches and transmissions are concurrently transferred between the inner and outer worlds. The manner in which Ohno weaves his silk threads imitates the binary structure also used in artificial intelligence.
The key sculpture in the space was inspired by painted scrolls depicting Bodhidharma, a Buddhist monk (470-543) who brought Chan (Zen) Buddhism to China. Deep in meditation, facing the wall, he arrived at an alert awareness, realizing that the individual self does not exist as a separate entity.
Examination of the interrelations between consciousness and the world allowed the definite borders to dissolve.
Ohno’s work is also influenced by quantum physics, which perceives the universe as a continuous space of particles and fluctuations occurring simultaneously. The way in which we observe a given phenomenon likewise affects this movement, creating and outlining it. The figure of Bodhidharma, made of a web of interconnected silk threads, touches upon the essence of this insight and the meaning of the notion of Sunyata—emptiness or void—in Zen. It is sculpture which refers to human existence as a body of consciousness inseparable from its surroundings.
Kouji Ohno (b. 1971, Tokyo) studied art in Japan and holds an MA in sculpture. He lives and works in Japan and the Netherlands.
From “Introspection” Kouji Ohno – Shir Miller Yamaguchi – curator of Wilfrid Israel Museum


Kouji Ohno (JP)
Naoya Yoshikawa (JP)
Naoya Yoshikawa was born in 1961 in Japan. In 1984 he graduated from the Osaka University of Arts, BA, Japan and from 1989 till 1995 he studied at the Southampton Master Photography Summer Workshop of the Southampton College, Long Island University, New York, USA and in 1993 he graduated from the Osaka University of Arts, M.A., Osaka, Japan. After a long career initiating, curating, coordinating and organizing numerous photography related workshops, international competitions, guest scholarships, residencies and exhibitions, Naoya Yoshikawa currently works as professor at the Osaka University of Arts, Japan and investigates his personal processes as a photographer. He did a large number of solo exhibition in Japan and participated in a large quantity of group exhibitions worldwide. His work has been included within the collections of a wide range of international art institutions.


Naoya Yoshikawa (JP)
Keiko Yamamoto (JP)
The Japanese artist Keiko Yamamoto explores the process, craft and skill of textile sculpturing in contemporary art. Her goal is to create work based on the conceptual theme of volume presence. She investigates experimenting with structure, texture and new possibilities to work with fabric in the process. Keiko Yamamoto is a textile sculpturing artist in a continuous search for her own and ultimate personal world.
Keiko explores the imaginative use of layering swatches of fabric that will create the basic ingredients for creating evocative three-dimensional textile artworks. Keiko is fascinated by the creation of layering fabrics, without cutting or using thread after layering. By concept, the fabric represents time and the mass of overlapping fabrics represents the present for Keiko. The fabric is thin and soft, but when layered, it thickens and becomes one mass. By layering the fabric and leaving it as a form, she expresses the lapse of time she lived and the passing present. She creates to explore life and to confirm that she is alive and conscious of her existence. Keiko continuously investigates resources and references for the experiment. Her focus is firmly based on the conceptual values of her processes and without losing touch with the overall project she is working on.
Ayaka Kita (JP)
Yushin Tokai
Han Bun Ko (JP)
Aki Guarino (JP)
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We will hold a production unveiling exhibition at Gallery Garage on Wednesday, April 2 and Thursday, April 3,2025.
2025年4月2日(水)、3日(木)ギャラリーガラージュにて制作発表展を開催します。
まちなかアートhttps://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/minami/page/0000307923.html

10dence Platformとまちなかあるき&座談会
3月17日(月)13時~14時30分 まちあるき
15時~16時30分 座談会
集合場所 ギャラリーガラージュ
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