VENUES
NATSUMI AOYAGI, Language for Our Relation: A Demonstration, 2025. 3-channel video (2 monitors and 1 tablet), color, sound, with dismantled wedding zabuton cushions, 4 min., 50 sec. Installation view, The WilloW, Seoul, 2025. Photo by Minji Yi.
NATSUMI AOYAGI, still from Language for Our Relation: A Demonstration, 2025. 3-channel video (2 monitors and 1 tablet), color, sound, with dismantled wedding zabuton cushions, 4 min., 50 sec. Photo by Minji Yi. © Natsumi Aoyagi, courtesy The WilloW, Seoul.
NATSUMI AOYAGI + MIYU HOSOI, Land Registry, 2024. Video and sound installation. Installation view, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, 2024. Photo by Keizo Kioku. © Natsumi Aoyagi + Miyu Hosoi, courtesy NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo.
NATSUMI AOYAGI + MIYU HOSOI, still from Land Registry, 2024. Video and sound installation. © Natsumi Aoyagi + Miyu Hosoi, courtesy NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo.
AWT FOCUS
NATSUMI AOYAGI: POSSIBLE WORDS, POSSIBLE WORLD
Curated by Jaemin Shin
Misa Shin Gallery
Korean independent curator Jaemin Shin guides this solo project by emerging artist and poet Natsumi Aoyagi, whose recent multimedia installations link macro-territory (filled-in land) with micro-social relationships (the family registry system) through the keywords “record” and “ownership.”
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Misa Shin Gallery
Misa Shin Gallery opened in 2010 in Shirokane, a central and historically industrial area of Tokyo that still contained small factories at the time. In 2018 the gallery relocated to Minami-Azabu, a quiet residential neighborhood that is also home to many embassies. The gallery represents a multigenerational roster of Japanese and international artists, many of whom work with conceptual and interdisciplinary approaches. The gallery seeks to both present exhibitions of cutting-edge work and establish the historical significance of its artists. In particular, the gallery’s representation of Japanese conceptual artists from the 1960s and ’70s has made lasting contributions to the global understanding and appreciation of postwar Japanese art.
