Risako Yamanoi, Places, 2021, watercolor, gouache, colored pencils, and graphite on paper
Risako Yamanoi is a visual artist based in Helsinki. She has completed her master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki. Her work explores personal feelings and memories which remain unseen and marginal in everyday life.
To create the work, I thought about the choices I made, and about how those choices affected my identity. Then I started thinking that the things I did not choose or I have not got yet could be equally important as the choices I made. Perhaps what makes me who I am is not only the things I have now but also the things I have lost or I long for. It feels somehow natural to me to think that way.
Perhaps what makes me who I am is not only the things I have now but also the things I have lost or I long for.
READPlaces
What if nothing doesn’t actually ever get ruined? Or at least not that bad. Maybe it just finished completely different than you thought.
READMitäpä jos (What if)
I did the work improvising it along the way during spring and summer 2021. The picture resembles a message or a notice board. There are small bits of drawing/painting/text done on a piece of paper that I had with me for some months in my backpack. I liked the idea that the image and the paper have aged - that the passing of time has left its marks on the work.
READIt is Only the End of the World
The Finding of Hän is an original puppet theater production that explores the inherent duality of human nature and imagines the lifespan of an ancient object. Themes and characters are drawn from coastal cultures and stories from around the world.
READThe Finding of Hän
