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Kyoko Ebata

(JP)

Washing Hinomaru

Dimensions: Variable
Materials: Mixed media

Ebata washes Hinomaru (the national flag of Japan) as a performance of ceremony, in a continuous cycle conducting the repeated washing, line-drying, ironing, and folding of a number of the flags; their line drying doubling as their display. Ebata works on diverse projects, each employing a concrete poetics to investigate or circumscribe subjects which are felt as absent, abstract, or invisible with antilogy often referring to the state of society.

Almut Rink

A Village

Board 8, 2016-2017

Community produces history. As the host of Ebata's flags that need to dry after washing, the installation of Board 7 at the back terrace in front of the installation of "Washing Hinomaru" also serves as a vantage point for a long clothesline pointing into the infinite space of the park.