Nanase Ohkawa, their leader and director and storyboarder, is chiefly responsible for writing the scripts that Clamp produces, and guiding the story-telling process. The mid-1980’s brought us Clamp, the all-female Japanese manga group that produced works such as Tsubasa, and Cardcaptor Sakura.
Abstract painting, unlike other mediums, has to prove itself constantly.” The titles of her paintings, such as Senseless Lucidity or Confident Apprehension, seem to echo these sentiments of opposition that we find in both art and in life. In extracting sensitivity from the onlooker, her paintings offer a palpable reaction as evidence of being worthy of “existing critically.” She says that being an artist is like “Searching to know what you’re doing, and trying to unknow it at the same time. The photo shows her mother and brother dressed in western clothes, and her as a baby dressed in a colorful Korean National dress, one that she reasons could have inspired and even formed some of her “visual sensibilities.” Her work as an abstract painter aims to question what it means to be abstract, and often searches for ways in which sensitivity can be touched, elevated to that of an intellectual experience. Then the work is complete.” says Tabaimo in her video public conVENience (2006) that explores the “boundaries or lack thereof” in public and private spaces.īorn in Japan to Korean parents, Shirely Kaneda expresses her familiarity in having a “hybrid identity.” In a talk at New York Studio School in 2018, Kaneda reflects on a picture of her family taken in 1954 in Japan. “When I’m making my work, I take 50% of the responsibility, the other half of the responsibility is on the viewer. Her installations are surreal, often transporting viewers to various urban or natural landscapes as if in invitation. The passengers take no notice, and are either absorbed in their newspapers, cell phones, or sleep. In her video installation, Japanese Commuter Train, 2001, one can see a pile of disembodied human hands sitting on the floor. Her animation style contains elements of ukiyo-e and early manga drawings, but is altogether made her own by dislocating or dismembering the subjects of her illustration.
Tabaimo’s work tends to focus on society, particularly the social workings of Japan, and questioning them in her own way. The contemporary Japanese animator has showcased her work all over the world, and is well known for her video installations that are both magical and uncomfortable by nature. “I create situations that make viewers feel uneasy and participate more actively” says Tabaimo in a video produced by the Swedish museum Moderna Museet.
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