40х40х10 cm, 3 different thin Japanese papers, Japanese powdered mineral and dyeing pigments, glue made from deer bone and skin. Composition with three types of thin Japanese color papers.
I explored how I could transfer my usual work with acrylic paints on canvas, which is to create a three-dimensional depth on a flat surface in the end and achieved a somewhat similar effect by colouring thin Japanese paper, throwing it into the box and layering it.
In the Buddhist temples in Japan, there is a custom of ringing a bell 108 times on New Year's Eve (Silvester). It is said that humans have 108 desires, and this ritual is an attempt to eliminate those desires by ringing the bell one by one.
When I wanted to create a work using a method based on intuition rather than by composition aimed at achieving a specific effect by throwing paper into a box, I remembered the New Year's Eve bell and prepared 108 sheets of paper. In the end, I did not use all 108 sheets, but I decided to title the work ‘Desires’ based on that process.
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Since 1985 she performed in many museums, galleries and public sites worldwide, including ZKM Karlsruhe (DE), Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin (DE), Telstra Adelaide Festival (AU), Asian Art Museum SanFrancisco( US) and many others. In 1998/99 she received a grant at Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart (DE), In the year 2003 she received a Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin grant. She had exhibitions at Kamakura gallery, Tokyo (1983), as well as at Haus am Waldsee (2014), DRK Klinik (2017), Projektraum David Chipperfield Architects (2019) and others in Berlin. Junko Wada lives and works in Berlin.
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