A conversation with Yuka Oyama

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Yuka and Prisca talk about Yuka’artwork projects that investigate the relation between home and objects through people's experiences. Yuka explains her artistic approach and aims by showcasing the large project called ‘Mobile personal Belongings’ that is composed of 3 volumes ‘HELPERS CHANGING HOMES’, ‘A home is a home is a home’ , ‘SurvivaBall Home Suits’. 

Yuka Oyama is a Japanese-German artist who grew up in Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, USA and Germany. She has lived and worked in Berlin since 2003. Oyama’s artistic practice incorporates sculpture, jewellery, video, photography, public interventions, choreographic experimentations and performances. Her life-sized, wearable sculptures function as material provocations that explore the disconnections often felt in contemporary life: the degeneration of human-to-human emotional communication and our sense of belonging. Everyday objects are used to upset these disconnections, facilitating our ability to act beyond set conventions. As object-human hybrids – objectified humans and personified objects – the sculptures are often worn in public theatrical settings to encourage participants to feel more imaginative, gain a different understanding of self and improve capacity to connect to others.

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[IT] Yuka Oyama è un'artista giapponese-tedesca cresciuta in Malesia, Indonesia, Giappone, Stati Uniti e Germania. Vive e lavora a Berlino dal 2003. La pratica artistica di Oyama comprende scultura, gioielli, video, fotografia, interventi pubblici, sperimentazioni coreografiche e performance. Le sue sculture, indossabili e a grandezza naturale, fungono da provocazioni materiali che esplorano le disconnessioni spesso avvertite nella vita contemporanea: la degenerazione della comunicazione emotiva da uomo a uomo e il nostro senso di appartenenza. Gli oggetti quotidiani vengono utilizzati per sconvolgere queste disconnessioni, facilitando la nostra capacità di agire al di là delle convenzioni stabilite. Come ibridi oggetto-uomo - esseri umani oggettivizzati e oggetti personificati - le sculture sono spesso indossate in contesti teatrali pubblici per incoraggiare i partecipanti a sentirsi più fantasiosi, ad acquisire una diversa comprensione di sé e a migliorare la capacità di connettersi agli altri.

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