Namae Myoji “Babel and Utopia”

Launched in 2000, Spiral Independent Creators Festival (SICF) is an open-call art festival that aspires to discover, foster, and support emerging artists and designers. We will held an exhibition of the winner of the 23 Spiral Independent Creators Festival EXHIBITION Grand Prize, Namae Myoji, in Spiral Garden (Spiral 1F). 

Namae Myoji uses her own gender identity and her past experiences and explore the female body, gender, identity in relation with consumption to create works on the themes surrounding these issues.
“Girls’ toys” often appear as a motif, expressing how children, from an early age, are oriented in their taste depending on their gender, how it may limit them in the exploration of various “identities” and the impact it has on the role they will play in the society.
In recent years, in addition to exploring her own experiences, she has developed multi-layered installations bringing together various mediums such as video and three-dimensional works, using stories like myths and plays, creating a theatrical space. Her work embraces diverse and complex current issues, that we tend to internalize, such as gender and sexuality, as well as family related matters.

In this exhibition, we present her new video installation, exploring themes related to violence such as the sexual violence hidden in social structures, inspired by "The Metamorphoses" of Roman poet Ovid and monsters from the Greek mythology.