Embodiment of Water
Opening: 05.10.2018



Exhibition dates: 6.10. - 21.10.2018

Performance Dates:
October 8 (Mon) 19:00
October 14 (Sun)17:00
October 21 (Sun)13:00

Kyoto Art Center
546-2 Yamabushiyama-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, 604-8156

Roberta Lima's practice focuses on her own body through work that questions the role of the artist and viewer. The media she employs is varied, including photography, video, and installation. In autumn last year, Lima spent a week accompanying a female chief brewer at Shoutoku Shuzo in Fushimi, Kyoto, learning not only about the sake brewing process but also how she became a chief brewer. Long overseen only by men, women were forbidden even from entering sake breweries in the past. If we return to the actual roots of the craft however, women were originally deeply involved with sake brewing. Today women are working as chief brewers all over Japan. Guided by research, Lima came to understand the importance of water. What function has water played in communities in Japan? And how can water be used as metaphor for resilience and to help emancipate women from antiquated attitudes? Embodiment of Water comprises a performance and installation that take place in the same space. The performance intervenes in the space, regenerating the installation. In Japan, a feminist revolution has already begun- not in isolated ways, but collectively. Lima is motivated by the desire to discuss these changes and also continue developing them.

Performances in collaboration with Yuya Tsukahara