- 21 August 2025 11 pm UTC
- dur 20 min
After studying Japanese painting in Kyoto.When she sketched outside, she realized that there is a kind of relationship between nature and the body. As she traveled around the country, she practiced practical body language to communicate with the local people. Later, she came into contact with calligraphy in China.
She continues to think about a certain relationship that happens between nature and the body, and finds the source of that feeling to be related to ancient Chinese nature beliefs and thoughts, and Japanese mountain beliefs. In the past few years, she has been climbing mountains and traveling solo, examining the former sites of ancient paths, and studying fortune-telling and almanacs.
Megumi works mainly in performance and drawing of actions. After studying Japanese painting in Kyoto.When she sketching outside, she realized that there is a kind of relationship between nature and the body. After living in Miyako Island for a year and a half in 1999 and observing the folk culture there, she went to China in 2001. As she traveled around the country, she practiced practical body language to communicate with the local people. Later, she came into contact with calligraphy in China, and in Beijing, she came into contact with performance artists and began to do performance art. She has exhibited performance works in China,Mongolia Land Art Biennale, Gwangju Museum of Contemporary Art in South Korea, Bangkok art center Thailand, and has done performance art workshops at Shantou University\’s School of Fine Arts/Goethe Institute in Beijing. After living in China for 15 years, she moved to Tokyo, Japan in 2016. She continues to think about a certain relationship that happens between nature and the body, and finds the source of that feeling to be related to ancient Chinese nature beliefs and thoughts, and Japanese mountain beliefs. In the past few years, she has been climbing mountains and traveling solo, examining the former sites of ancient paths, and studying fortune-telling and almanacs. Recent exhibitions include AQUA 2017 (Rome), Land Art Biennale Mongolia 360 (Mongolia 2010,2018), Responding: international performance festival 1 (Fukushima, Tokyo, 2018), Hadano Art Festival (2021,2025), Tong Wenmin; Performance Research Project-Repetition (Chongqing), Beyond the Soul Performance Art Festival (Nagano/Kyoto 2023,2024,2025), and others. artist website
