Contemporary Art Gallery

Criterium 100Yuka Numata

Criterium is an exhibition series featuring primarily new works co-curated by young artists and curators of the Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito. This exhibition presents Yuka Numata, an artist of the generation of digital natives for whom the internet is a part of daily life. Numata’s work examines the relationship between everyday life and the two- and three-dimensional realms from both digital and analogue perspectives.
Numata, born in Chiba Prefecture in 1992, is based in Tokyo and Chiba and has exhibited her work in Japan and abroad. For this exhibition, Numata transforms the gallery into a hotel room, drawing on her experiences of domestic and international travel as well as the world of video games, which we increasingly encounter as electronic devices permeate our world. Numata presents an installation that, through collages of accumulated images and a unique technique using fused beads, makes us consider the ways our physical and digital worlds overlap and diverge.

Yuka Numata

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Born in 1992 in Chiba, Japan. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 2019-2020. Completed Tokyo University of the Arts in 2022. Born into a generation of digital natives who use the internet on a daily basis, Yuka Numata is a contemporary artist who explores ways to move back and forth between two-dimensional and three-dimensional space. One of her representative materials is a toy called iron beads, and she uses a technique of constructing images by arranging them one by one. While using analog methods of expression, she creates events that could only occur in the computer and reinstalls them in the real world using installations. Hers aim is to preserve the transitional period of an era that is beginning to change with the expansion of virtual spaces such as VR, AR, and 3DCG in recent years.

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