ISHIZUKA Mako

Profile

Graduated with a MFA (Free Art) from Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, Sweden in 2005.
Studied interdisciplinary studies (thoughts/culture/sociology) in Japan, and free art in Europe. Living in various societies and growing thoughts through walks and dialogues, Ishizuka attempts to intervene into the distances that emerge at the intersection of the everyday and the world. Currently she works on the project “After-ripening & Corruption” based on her experiences as a migrant, and develop it further also in South Africa later in 2019.


Recent Exhibitions
"Frictions in the Globalisation" Group exhibition, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, 2017-2018
"MOT Satellite: Connecting Scapes" Group exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2017
"Art Meets 03" Solo exhibition, Arts Maebashi Museum, Gumma, 2016
"The New Vision" Group exhibition, Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo, 2015
"Fittja Pavilion" Group exhibition, Architecture Biennial (Serra dei Giardini), Venice, 2014

About works / performance

I attempt to intervene in the psychological and physical distances that appear at the intersections of the global issues and the everyday in our time, using my experiences, curious mind, and imagination as springboard. Having lived as ‘others’ in various societies, I acquired resilience, parallax and the licence for leaps. I use them to play with rules, norms and logics tactfully, and to mull over the findings and questions that surface in the shades of distances. It takes various forms, such as installations, acts, relational projects and essays, as I search for personal idioms that “resonate”, appreciating encounters and detours, to invite people to look afresh at their never-disputed worldview and stiffened values, and tailor their own relationship with the surrounding world.