artist | Nana Matsumoto

Sagamihara

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Nana Matsumoto is a Japanese artist currently living and working in Sagamihara.

Her artistic practice develops around the inherent identity of objects. Her body of work consists of paintings and mixed media works in which she employs a variety of materials, such as fabric, magazines, sticks, etc.

"Our daily life is inundated with various things such as billboards, cups, curtains, books, buildings and clothes. Meanings and concepts are attached to them according to their intended purposes, just as products are accompanied by operating manuals. These are some of the elements that constitute our society, while at the same time latently contain within themselves the social structure itself. In such an environment, objects exist as hints."

Nana Matsumoto's interest lies within her desire to present multiple "texts", referring to the semiotics use of this term, in order to unearth the dramas behind and around the objects. To accomplish this, she first liberates the objects from their meanings and concepts and then reduces them to their elementary components to reassess their differences within the system or the code upon which they have been constructed.
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