sun bath
Ever since I conceived the idea of making a photographic work of gum, I had been looking for a table to use as a substrate. A cat whose owner I did not know appeared irregularly and curled up on the floor of my studio for for a brief moment, forming into a table about the height of a tray. I placed a piece of gum on its fur and took a picture. n order to resume its next function, the “cat table” maintained the base for the gum while slightly undulating its surface in small undulating waves.
🅖 Shin-Takashima Station, the Minato Mirai Line, platforms 1 and 2
5-1-1- B5 (platform level), Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama
Emi OTAGURO
In 2019, under the Agency for Cultural Affairs Overseas Study Program for Emerging Artists, Otaguro worked in Berlin, and currently resides in Aichi Prefecture. She has participated in major exhibitions such as “Neko no hosomichi” at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi/2023), “DOMANI, Tomorrow 2021” at The National Art Center, Tokyo (Tokyo/2021), “the reverie” at KAYOKOYUKI (Tokyo/2022), “MESA” at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin/2020), and others.