Aichi Triennale

Nagasawa has mainly been involved in the traditional Matagi hunting culture in the Tohoku region and she has obtained a hunting license. From her own experiences and encounters with those other beings as a hunter, she records and expresses her relationship with different species on her paintings. The driving force behind this practice is the artist’s contemplation on the relationship between people, other living beings, and nature, as well as analyzing the boundaries between them, constantly shifting between macroscopic and microscopic perspectives. Nagasawa makes her own pigments from stones and glue from bears’ skin and bones, using slices from tree stumps as canvases. In this way, the mountains serve as both painting materials and motifs. Through fieldwork in the mountains, she seeks the roots and cycles of life and traces memories.

Selected exhibitions

2024

Akeyama Arts Center, Echigo-Tsumari Triennale 2024 (Niigata, Japan)

2024

Hirosaki Exchange #6: Bearing Witness to Shirakami, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art (Aomori, Japan)

2023

Material, or, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT (Tokyo, Japan)

2023

Shin Japanese Painting: Revolutionary Nihonga, Pola Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan)

2021

Solo exhibition, Embraced by the Misty Mountains, Kitaakita City Ani Community Center (Akita, Japan)