All photo credits: Dom Moore
Devon-based emerging artist residency with Huhtamaki Wab: 22nd June – 19th July 2020
With generous support from The Box, Plymouth and Arts Council England
Huhtamaki Wab works between painting, performance and video, alongside his role as director of the Genius Treasure Collection. Wab’s painting practice operates within an animistic and non-anthropocentric world.Interconnected spirits and humans populate landscapes to create ecstatic realities. His work is informed by the animistic culture from his birthplace of Japan, reflecting on how their belief systems are represented in art.
Huhtamaki Wab’s residency at Rame Projects was a period of experimentation in producing ‘art materials’ from the local area. Wab used his time to engage with the history and stories of the Rame Peninsula and the wider area of Devon and Cornwall, which informed the processes in producing material and new work. Alongside his personal practice, two workshops took place. Both will be taking animism as a starting point to think about our relationship to the more-than-human world. The first worked with home schooled children, making artworks out of foraged materials, and the second worked with local residents, making home made sumi ink and drawings.
Living in rural Devon, a connection to the landscape here both entangles and informs Wab’s life, well-being and art making. Born in Tokyo,1984, Graduated Chelsea College of Art.
www.huhtamakiwab.com / www.instagram.com/huhtamakiwab