Tabaimo

Well known for animated installations which use drawings and coloration that evoke the hand-made nature of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, offer a surreal, complex and sometimes disturbing vision of contemporary Japanese society. In 2011, she represented Japan at the 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. She has begun to work on a variety of stage collaborations, beginning with a collaboration with Ohad Naharin of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company in 2006. In 2016, she directed the performance, “Fruits borne out of rust. This performance work toured the U.S. in 2020, traveling to four U.S. cities. This year, the work “Tangled Drop”, a collaboration with circus artist Jörg Müller, toured Japan as the world premiere. And a tour of France had just finished at the end of last year. A new installation work was presented at the Folkwang Museum in Germany in 2022. And a large-scale solo exhibition at GL Strand in Copenhagen was held in 2023.