MIYATA Sayaka
WARP −The Plot of a Poppy−
sewing thread, cotton cloth, wooden panel

2021
TOKYO TORCH Tokiwabashi Tower
Tokyo

Client: Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd.
Curating & Direction: Code-a-Machine
Project members: NAKAHARA Takashi (DENBAK-FANO DESIGN)、TSUNOO Mai
Assistant: SONOBE Tatsuri
Technical Team: HIGURE 17-15 cas
PR: KOIKE Miki（HOW）

Photo: OTA Takumi

  • Art Consulting
  • Curation/Planning
  • Management/Coordination

Miyata deliberately makes sewing machine errors to create flower embroidery that looks like a broken digital image. Her works give the viewer the impression that the seemingly perfect world has been slightly torn apart, giving us a glimpse of something new. We live in a society that is highly developed by computer technology, and there is no end to the errors and bugs we must deal with. Miyata's work, which are expressions of imperfect beauty, questions whether these glitches can inspire us with incalculable value.

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MIYATA Sayaka

1985 Born and living in Kyoto, Japan
2012 Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School, Fine and Applied Arts Field, Textiles Area

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 “Kari no Ito”, Takashimaya Nihombashi Store, Tokyo
2019 “The Plot of Life -Episode Kyoto-“, WACOAL STUDYHALL KYOTO, Kyoto

Selected Group Exhibitons
2021 “Beyond the Material”, The Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Gifu
2021 “Thoughts on Sparseness and Density”, The Museum of Modern Art Wakayama, Wakayama
2017 “Binding Threads / Expanding Threads”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Hiroshima, Hirosima

Selected Awards
2017 Kyoto Art for Tomorrow – Selected Artists in Kyoto 2017, Excellence Award
2014 Kyoten, Kyoten Award

Public Collection
The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama