MORIYAMA Akane
Spectrum
nylon

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

Production: SHINKO INDUSTRY CO.,LTD.

  • Art Consulting
  • Curation/Planning
  • Management/Coordination

Moriyama sometimes develops textiles in collaboration with experts to create never-before-seen forms. Having studied architecture, Moriyama approaches her creations with an architectural mindset, and her works are indeed like buildings made of light and air. For this project, she used a taut mesh material to create a 12-meter-long art object. In collaboration with a dye artisan's studio in Kyoto, she has created a beautiful gradient that shifts from blue to yellow to orange. A mysterious presence that feels like lingering light floats in the third-floor space of the Tokiwabashi Tower.

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MORIYAMA Akane

1983 Born in Saga. Lives and works in Stockholm
2008 Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan, MA Architecture
2010 Konstfack/University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Sweden, MFA Textile Design

Selected Works
“Curtain for House O”, Kyoto
“Cubic Prism, Austin”, Texas
“Curtain for Hirakata T-site”, Osaka

Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 “KENPOKU ART 2016”, Ibaraki
2014 “Techne,n.: A Convergence between Art”, Craftsmanship and Architecture at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art Denmark

Selected Awards
2016 Curtains Competition by Center for American Architecture and Design, Finalist
2015 Stockholm City Culture Award