Yurika Sunada
It is a long-standing fascination with the intricate mechanisms of human perception that actuates the weaving together of movement, light and sound into the multifaceted installations that compose my work. Ever since I can remember, I have had a curiosity for form and obsessed with its precision. But in this pursuit of perfection, I simultaneously committed myself to continuous and irrefutable failure.
These early toils laid the foundation for the kinetic sculptures I produce today. They had fortuitously fostered a curiosity for the imperfect, my untrustworthy perceptive senses in particular. It is in an attempt to better understand, and finally acknowledge these shortcomings, that most of my sculptures lend shape and movement to the myriad of trifling matters that comprise a daily life. My work situates itself amidst their contradictory gaps - between perfection and acceptance, memory and forgetfulness, perception and misconception. And although they are meticulously cultivated on these introspective ruminations, my ambition is not only to grant an audience the access to my qualia, but to invite a reimagining of one’s own.
2014
2013
2012
Education
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions (ritmico)
Grants & Awards
Born in Tokyo, Japan
Yurika Sunada and Hikari Hirakida (b. 1988) form ritmico
Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
“ambivalent” , Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
TOKAS-emerging “engram”, Tokyo, Japan
“Intersection” Gallery 58, Tokyo, Japan
“The Research Associate Exhibition 2016”
Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan
“TOKYO artcrossing BERLIN”
Haus Schwarzenberg neurotitan, Berlin Germany
“The Research Associate Exhibition 2015”
Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan
“JART4TH” WAH Center, New York, USA
“The Research Associate Exhibition 2014”
Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan
“SICF 14” Aoyama Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
“The Research Associate Exhibition 2013”
Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan
“artcross project 2012 winter exhibition / Creative snow GINZA”
Tokyo, Japan
POLA Art Foundation Residencies
Aesthetica Art Prize 2018 Longlist, United Kingdom
Received the incentive award of Final Graduation Project Exhibition graduation from Musashino Art University
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, POLA Art Foundation
GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany
1989
2009
2018
2019-2020
2008 - 2012
2020
2019
2018
2016
2015
2012
2019-2020
2018
AIR