EXHIBITION-RELATED PROGRAMS

Community Engagement Program
"Usui Yui: What Shapes Me" (Two-day Program)

Louise Bourgeois Related Program

As part of the Community Engagement Program, Mori Art Museum will hold a workshop called "Usui Yui: What Shapes Me." In this workshop, artist Usui Yui will work with participants to analyze Bourgeois’s works and production methods, and each participant will create an art piece based on their experience.

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was born in 1911 in Paris, to parents who ran a tapestry restoration business. Having helped out in the family business from an early age, many of her works use cloth and thread. Through her work, Bourgeois expressed various elements that shaped her, such as her relationships with family and friends, her childhood memories, and her emotions.

In this workshop, together with Usui, you will gain a deeper understanding of Bourgeois’s work and creative methods, and using this as a starting point, you will consider the beings, memories, and emotions that shape you and express them in your work. Materials will be used clothes and other fabrics filled with memories, such as those used by Bourgeois.

Bourgeois’s work also contains painful memories and traumas from the past, but it is also true that she tried to recover and find hope through creation of her work. To understand the artist’s work and creative methods more deeply, and to experience the creative process would yield a valuable opportunity for each participant to think about the meaning and role of art.

What you need to bring with you

- Sewing tools that you normally use (needles, thread, scissors, etc.).
- Fabrics and materials that will help you be conscious of “what shapes me” when creating (Clothes worn by you, your family, or loved ones, materials that you have fond memories of, etc.).

Appearing

Usui Yui (Artist)

Dates & Time

1) 13:30-16:30, Sunday, October 27, 2024
2) 13:30-16:30, Saturday, November 23, 2024
* Note that this is a 2-day workshop.
* Applicants, please be sure that you can attend both of these two days upon booking.

Schedule (tentative)

* Production will start during the first session and continue at home or elsewhere until the second day’s session.

- First Session (Sunday, October 27)

13:30-14:00

Welcome remarks, explanation of the program

14:00-15:00

Viewing the Louise Bourgeois exhibition

15:00-15:45

Review the production process and summarize the thoughts on what to create

15:45-16:30

Artist Usui’s demonstration and each person starts production

16:30

End of the program

16:30-17:00

Individual questions can be asked to Usui about each person’s production

17:00

End

- Second Session (Saturday, November 23)
Presentation of the production process, title, and content of each person’s work

For

From fifth-graders and up
* This is a workshop where the participants use sewing needle and thread.
* Parents are welcome to participate with their children. When applying, please fill in the names and ages of all the people who will participate with you in the remarks column.
* Please be aware that this exhibition includes works that could be perceived as sexually explicit or violent. Prior to entering the exhibition we ask for the understanding.

Booking Period

Wednesday, September 18 - Thursday, October 10, 2024

Results of the Lottery

Results of the lottery will be sent to each applicant via e-mail by Friday, October 18, 2024.

Notice

Please note that the museum might take photos/movies for purpose of publicity and documentation during the program.

Usui Yui

Usui Yui creates works using familiar materials such as fabric, while focusing on handicraft techniques. Throughout her practice she engages in efforts to interpret and understand society and history. She has recently presented works at exhibitions including Thinking about Caring and Motherhood through Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito (2023); JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE Resistance and Resilience in Japanese Contemporary Art, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano (2022-2023); Feminisms, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2021-2022).

Organizers

Mori Building Co., Ltd., Mori Art Museum