The Beginning of Life/Art

Considering that complex social facts are woven in textiles, the textile/visual artist ENDO Kaori collects textiles and repeatedly uses and restores them, in her search for the essence of crafts, rooted in people’s life, through a contemporary art perspective. Inspired by the remark made by the painter Kiyoshi Yamashita (1922-1971), who is said to have started wandering about to escape from the draft during the Second World War, she created an installation themed around war and fireworks.