monade contemporary｜単子現代
October 5 (Sat) – 20 (Sun), 2024

kobo CHIKA｜工房親
December 7 (Sat) – 15(Sun), 2024

In 2023, Reico Motohara spent two months at Narva Art Residency, an Estonian city on the Russian border.
The borderline in the middle of the river is very peaceful, with birds and fish freely coming and going. Even though war is right next door, people still make and enjoy their meals. In the kitchens of the people who live in the town, she recorded conversations while making and sharing the family’s standard dishes, revealing fragments of history and social issues through casual exchanges of words.
Motohara exhibited video, photographs, and an installation of three-dimensional works made from clay collected in the area, as well as a related event, a performance connecting people living on the border remotely to cook and share a meal together.

photo 02/03/08-11 : courtesy of Kobo Chika (Tetsuta Tsurumoto)
photo 01/04-07 : Nobuo Yasutake