美術家。1988年栃木県生まれ。2010年女子美術大学立体アート学科卒業。2018年ポーラ美術振興財団若手芸術家在外研修員としてアメリカ、メキシコ、カナダにて調査、研修。現在主に東京都を拠点に活動。「紙を作ること」に着目し、紙漉きの手法を応用、作品を展開。紙を人間の物語が内包する物体と捉え、その構造やプロセスを辿ることで自己や人間を取り巻く環境や構造、その背景について考察している。

 

Tomomi Hanzawa is Artist. Born 1988 in Tochigi. Lives and works in Tokyo. B.F.A., Sculpture Course, Joshibi University of art and design in 2010. Recipient of a Pola Art Foundation Grant for Overseas Study by Young Artists in 2018. She was a visiting artist and took the training in the paper studio in the SouthWest School of Art in San Antonio, Texas, and She researched about papermaking in some parts of the USA, Mexico and Canada.

In her work with paper, she considers identity and the state of the self. 

Paper always gives her an incentive. Paper is the structure of intertwined fibers. There is a fact that paper has been made in various places around the world in different ways according to the environment and it has been developed for various purposes. Considering this fact, we can say that paper itself can be already considered  as an object including our human story in itself.  She unravels the story and superimpose it with "now" by tracing the paper structure and process, and questioning its origins.

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July 2023

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