Artist Statement – 05/2025
My work explores thresholds—between memory and forgetting, humans and nature, history and myth.
I see my artistic practice as a form of connection – between past and present, between cultures, between humans and nature.
Painting is my central medium: a tool for tracing, an intuitive language that allows me to remember, question, and make visible what only appears in fragments.
Transgenerational experiences, transcultural identity, personal memory – and the process of remembering itself – are condensed in my work. A key focus of my artistic research is the story of my japanese grandmother, who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and was disowned by her family for marrying a foreigner.
In my paintings, image spaces emerge where fragments of history, myth, and memory overlap. Yōkai, Japanese folklore, and fairy tales act as poetic agents in the blind spots of memory. They open a path toward an animistic worldview.
My painting navigates the in-between – between the visible and the invisible, between language and silence.
Chestnut Rain, obāchan no ie no nioi (the smell of my grandma's house), 2022
Kastanien Regen, obāchan no ie no nioi (der Geruch des Hauses meiner Großmutter), 2022
Ausstellungstext, dt./en., ↗ für Sound of the City, Tamina Amadyar, Meyer Riegger, 2021
über "InterViews", 2020, dt., ↗ Radiosalon für Alltägliches #29
Betrachtungen- Paradies der Milben, Corona und die öffentl. Räume, 2020, ↗ 99% urban