1000 cranes V2, 2020
ReChangTing GalleryTokyo, Japan
Rolling papers, rolling paper packs, stickers, 2 foil bags
Each foil bag 15 x 20 x 0,3 cm

1000 cranes is a series of works created in transitional periods. They are a way to cope with waiting, not having access to equipment, material, or stimuli. Originally based on the Japanese proverb that folding 1000 cranes make a wish come true, or bring happiness, the cranes are reinterpreted. How to wait? How to be productive? How to overcome artist’s block? 1000 cranes are artistic meditations, and a way to move to the next chapter. Each version is connected to a personal moment and investigates different adaptations. Whilst refraining from the monumentality of a heavy tradition, 1000 cranes introduce an intimate point of view on the legend. White, ephemeral, and flexible, they hint at rebirth, persistence, and infinity.  1000 cranes V2 were folded while anticipating my departure to Tokyo in 2020, and while invigilating an exhibition in Hydra.


I am a visual artist and researcher inspired by ecosmological narratives in scientific and local mythologies. My work is grounded in astronomy, geology, and critical theory, and I make sculptural installations, art books, and workshops. 

Recently I have been reading about cultural celestial practices in Japan, writing on sensory walking, and working at the art therapy department of an elderly home in Tokyo.

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Digital Presentation at the 11th IAKE International Scientific Conference: Creative Communities—Participation and initiative in institutional collectives: Society, Education, Political Consultation, Heraklion, Crete

PhD Public Presentation, Agential Materialities within Post-Contemporary Art Workshops: Facilitating Selfhood, Otherness, Critical Theory, and Storytelling, Tokyo University of the Arts [14 February 2025]

Photo Report of cosmohapticsー宇宙の手触り at ART iT Asia [21 March 2025]

cosmohapticsー宇宙の手触り at The 5th Floor [14 February-23 March 2025]

Launch of noboru one: genealogies, NAMNAM Space, Tokyo [14–21 December 2024]

Exhibiting at the 15th Bienal de la Habana–Shared Horizons, Cuba [15 November 2024-28 February 2025]

Dans le sillage d’Aphrodite at the Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece [29 October-11 November 2024]

Artist Residency with voyons voir+ in Marseille, France [20 September-21 October 2024]

Participation at the ‘Sonic Dialogues: Intersections of Art and Sound in Public Spaces’ Spring School at mdw–University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna [12-14 June 2025]

Paper Presentation: Youth Futurisms Through Paperscapes in the Fantastic Fields Art Workshop at The 17th Annual Conference of the Japan Association for Cultural Policy Research, Aoyama Gakuin University [17 March 2024]

Research Presentation at Monash x TUA, Tokyo University of the Arts [19 January 2024]

のぼる [noboru] released at Printed Matter [10 December 2023]

Participation at the Tokyo Art Book Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo [23-26 November 2023]

Documentation Online Release: PARK-PLATZ パークプラツ, Goethe-Institut Korea [30 November 2023]

Participation in Art Futures Research, The University Art Museum [11-26 November 2023]

『のぼる』[noboru]  Zine Launch at Dig A Hole Zines [14 October 2023]

what are you for a creature at NAMNAM Space, Tokyo [14-15 October 2023]

Paper Presentation at The 4th Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture: Un-learning with Matter: Observing Orientations, Frictions and Entanglements in “Silver Streaming Systems 銀河系” [10-13 October 2023]

Intervention Artist at PARK-PLATZ, URBAN WALKS Goethe-Institut East Asia [23 September 2023, 11:00-18:00]

Paper Presentation: Interfering Diffractively with Matter: Anamneses of the “Metagrid” Art Workshop at The 4th Barcelona Conference on Arts, Media & Culture [19-23 September 2023]

Emerging Scholar Award at the Eighteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University [19-21 July 2023]

Exhibiting at ROBERTO CUOGHI, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany [3 December 2022-29 May 2023]

metttafestival, Goethe-Institut Tokyo in partnership with Tokyo College, Japan [1-2 October 2022]

 Exhibition with Performance Lab: Crystal Clear at Nakacho-no-Ie, Tokyo, Japan [27-28 August 2022]

Art & New Ecology at The University Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan [28 May-26 June 2022]

Project Online Launch: Planetary Systems, Eyes of Light, Greece [21 May 2022]

Stage Artwork for “The Man, my Dad” by Yoshiya Yoshimitsu, Graduation Works Exhibitions 2022, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum [29 January-1 February 2022]

Open Call for Planetary Systems: Workshop for Women with Cancer Experience, Eyes of Light, Greece [10 December 2021]

Obaachan no kami, Exhibition at Studio GROSS, Tokyo, Japan [28 August-1 September2021]

Gravestone at the Cincinnati Art Book Fair, Ohio, USA [21-22 August 2021]

ø mars, Online Exhibition by Bauhaus University Weimar and Tokyo University of the Arts [15 July 2021]

東京藝術大学佐藤時啓研究室展「Re」, Group Exhibition at ChangTing Gallery, Tokyo, Japan [19-30 March 2021]

New normal, Abnormal, 変わらないもの, Group Exhibition at VIVA, Tokyo, Japan [11-23 December 2020]

Squaring the circle at the ATOPOS cvc e-shop [22 May 2020]

Workshop DRESS 2020 at ATOPOS cvc, Athens, Greece [23 January 2020]

Occupy Atopos #Residency Studio #Chloé Paré [October 2019-March 2020]