Asako Shiroki (Japan)
Asako Shiroki’s work revolves around various actions and processes that are derived from the natural materials out of which it is made. She dislocates mutual rules and suggests new relationships to happenings that occur simultaneously in this world, such as history and culture, customs, awareness of flora and fauna, and the phenomena between tangible and intangible things. She reverses and mix things, including concepts that ought to be on the reverse, reflects things in mirrors or peels away related meanings to let things themselves start a dialogue in different contexts. Working autonomously between a territory of self-defined-by-things and one of things-defined-by-self, she attempts to unfold and interpret several parallel worlds, oscillating between perpetually repeated cycles of recollection and oblivion.
During her residency at Malt AIR, she will investigate the views on nature among the people who live in this community.
