Artists

Rie Nakajima

Press release

Annely Juda Fine Art is delighted to present the work of Rie Nakajima from 16 May – 6 July 2024. Nakajima is a sculptor and collaborative artist fusing sculpture, music and sound performance, and installations. Everyday items and found paraphernalia are combined and activated by small motorised devices and movement, triggering various components’ sound potential.

“A form appears at a certain time and disappears at a certain time. In the process of its appearing, the outside world becomes a little more tactile. Sounds, tastes, memories, stories, etc are moving back and forth between insides and outsides of myself, then gradually a certain form gets shaped, that could be sudden sometimes. After it simply fades away, disappears, then an impression of the experience remains. This impression could also have its time and form.... I think music and sculpture for me are the flow of these.”

Air Recycle is a unique installation created by Nakajima on our 3rd floor gallery space specifically for this exhibition. Her working process is intuitive and improvised with different objects taking on their own characteristics, often randomly, and in reaction to each other. In her works, Nakajima incorporates many found and reclaimed materials including paper tubes, buttons, strings, tin, sticks, bicycle tubes, lids and jars, steel wire and electronics to power them. She envisages motors rotating papers, scratching walls and hitting steel wire, others rotating metal sticks that ring against bottles, pencils and sticks that hit and draw on walls or objects with fast, slow and soft movements. The direction and nature of the work is not pre-determined but sound is always a key element in responding to the space and interactions of her materials. Whether these compositions are across the floor, wall-mounted or freestanding, Nakajima’s installations spontaneously emerge, comprising a multitude of individual yet connected components.