Material & Mechanism

" NAGASAKA Aki’s work begins with ideas inspired by her personal experiences―encounters with people, things and events, and she tries further to increase their depths by probing into the cultural and historical background of what are stemming from them. Interweaving reality, experience, recollection and imagination, she develops a narrative world in which actuality and imagination are mingled. This world is expressed not only in texts but also in a variety of media such as objets d’art, images, sounds and photographs. In addition, the world is not only what the artist tells us one-sidedly, but it also functions as a “stage setting” in which each viewer can think of their original stories. " (Editor's website)