Namae Myoji
6-4 Chuocho Bldg 
Bar Komad 
Eclosion and hatching (Venue: 6-4 Chuocho Bldg)
This art installation set in a building that was used as a brothel in a red-light district in Japan.
In this piece, the artist uses butterflies to show women being freed from their gender roles drawing from Chuang Tzu’s “”The Butterfly Dream.””
After World War II, Japan also saw women’s virtues to be virginity and purity, and the gap between “”holy mothers”” and “”prostitutes”” ran even deeper.
What seems like relative truths, such as sex and holiness, beauty and ugliness, noble and humble, women and men……at the end of the day, isn’t that really just a single aspect of wisdom mankind has created?
OUR BODIES (Venue: Bar Komad)
This art installation replicates a museum shop that sells goods related to the posters of naken women with clothes painted on them.
This exhibition will focus mainly on the poster works.
Throughout history, female nude has been objectified and made into subjects by numerous male artists, and has continued to be a motif in their creations.
In this piece, the artist is using an artistic practice to reclaim “”Our bodies”” for women from simply being gazed at.
A graduate of Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Painting, with a major in oil painting in 2019. Artist Myoji focuses on issues surrounding women’s bodies, sexuality, identity and the commodification of femininity, drawing inspiration from personal experiences.
Her most recent exhibitions include “Solo Exhibition Babel and Utopia” (Spiral, Tokyo, 2023), “CAF Award 2022” (Hillside Forum in Daikanyama, Tokyo, 2022) and “ROKKO MEET ART 2022” (Mt. Rokko, Hyogo, 2022).
