Fujiko Nakata
Cloud Installation #07240 Standing Cloud
a fog sculpture poetically placed near a silver birch grove.
“I create a stage for nature to express itself freely … I am a fog sculptor, but I do not try to shape it. The atmosphere is the mould and the wind is the chisel.”
Artist Bio
Fujiko Nakaya is a pioneer of installation and video art in Japan. As a member of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) that promoted a new interdisciplinary approach towards art, technology and the environment, she opened Japan’s first video art gallery in Tokyo in 1980 and has since collaborated with renowned choreographers and artists including Trisha Brown, Robert Rauschenberg and Bill Viola. In 1970 she created the world’s first fog sculpture at the Pepsi Pavilion, Expo ‘70 in Osaka and subsequently developed her unique immersive installations around the world.
Themes: human, agency, extinction
Category: Events