Yurika Sunada b. 1989 in Tokyo, Japan
It is a long-standing fascination with the intricate mechanisms of human perception that actuates the weaving together of movement, light and sound into the multifaceted installations that compose my work. Ever since I can remember, I have had a curiosity for form and obsessed with its precision. But in this pursuit of perfection, I simultaneously committed myself to continuous and irrefutable failure.
These early toils laid the foundation for the kinetic sculptures I produce today. They had fortuitously fostered a curiosity for the imperfect, my untrustworthy perceptive senses in particular. It is in an attempt to better understand, and finally acknowledge these shortcomings, that most of my sculptures lend shape and movement to the myriad of trifling matters that comprise a daily life. My work situates itself amidst their contradictory gaps - between perfection and acceptance, memory and forgetfulness, perception and misconception. And although they are meticulously cultivated on these introspective ruminations, my ambition is not only to grant an audience the access to my qualia, but to invite a reimagining of one’s own.
Education
2023-
2008 - 2012
B.F.A. in Scenography, Department of Scenography, Space, Fashion, Interior and Environment Design, Musashino Art University
M.F.A. in Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2020
ambivalent, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2019
TOKAS-emerging: engram, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2021
Interspace, ART PROJECT TAKASAKI 2021, Gunma, Japan
2018
Intersection, Gallery 58, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions
(Yurika Sunada and Hikari Hirakida (b. 1988) form ritmico)
2016
The Research Associate Exhibition 2016,
Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan
2015
TOKYO artcrossing BERLIN,
Haus Schwarzenberg neurotitan, Berlin Germany
2014
The Research Associate Exhibition 2015,
Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan
JART4TH, WAH Center, New York, USA
The Research Associate Exhibition 2014,
Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan
SICF 14, Aoyama Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
2013
The Research Associate Exhibition 2013,
Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan
2012
artcross project 2012 winter exhibition / Creative snow GINZA, Tokyo, Japan
2019-2020
POLA Art Foundation Residencies
Grants & Awards
2018
Aesthetica Art Prize 2018 Longlist, United Kingdom
2012
Received the incentive award of Final Graduation Project Exhibition graduation from Musashino Art University
2019-2020
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, POLA Art Foundation
AIR
2018
GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany