CMTK (Chihiro Mori x Teppei Kaneuji) _Chihiro Mori
CMTK（Chihiro Mori x Teppei Kaneuji）
Over the years, Mori has been focusing her photography practice on streets, landscapes, and TV screens, and has been capturing such subjects on a daily basis. She views her work as a ray of light, beauty, or an entrance to somewhere other than the present moment. The project begins when Kaneuji edits and collages them and connects them with the material world. The results are new images that go back and forth between real and unreal, intricately mixing multiple disconnections and multiple connections with multiple gazes.
CMTK has participated in Art Collaboration Kyoto (Kyoto) and Yanbaru Art Festival (Okinawa) in 2021. They are scheduled to participate in the Kyoto International Performing Arts Festival in October 2022.
Chihiro Mori
Incorporating the fragments she has picked up through her unique perspective of observing the city, Chihiro Mori creates works in a variety of ways, including painting, drawing, sculpture, animation, photography, and installation.
Her work is both anarchic and human, coexisting with unrest and beauty, raw cruelty and fun.
In 2017, she held her first museum solo exhibition “omoide in my head” (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art). Other major solo exhibitions include “Colorful Nukarumi” (CAPSULE, Tokyo, 2012). Past exhibitions include “Vong Co RAHZI” (blum & poe, Tokyo, 2019), “Who will open up the world?” (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2019), “Weavers of 100 years – Japanese Modern Art in Flux” (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2019), “CHILDHOOD Another banana day for the dream-fish” (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2018), “In Focus: Contemporary Japan” (Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, USA, 2018), “Roppongi Crossing 2013 Out of Doubt” (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2013), “Painting Garden: From the Horizon of Japan in the 1900s” (National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2010), “Door to Summer” The Age of Micropop” (Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, 2007). In 2019, she was selected as one of the production artists for the “Tokyo 2020 Official Art Poster”.
Art Collaboration Kyoto Installation photo: Courtesy of ACK, 2021, photo by Nobutada Omote
