KIMURA Momoko

Profile

Born in 1993 in Tokyo. Works in Tokyo. Graduated with an MFA from Musashino Art University in 2019.
Kimura specializes in sculpting, using motifs like stars and the human body to explore material depth and temporal dimensions. Through wood's growth rings, Kimura visualizes intangibles like light and time in artworks.

Recent exhibitions
2023 “New Place,” Art Gallery Miyauchi, Hiroshima
2023 “SYUCCHOU - MONO.LOGUES #3,” GASBON METABOLISM, Yamanashi
2023 “Asyl - The silent multiple tasks to be talkative,” Art or Rice noodles or Paichu, Tokyo
2021 “A wooden horse and stars,” WALLA, Tokyo
2019 “CAF Award 2019,” Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo

Awards
2019 “KWON Jin Kyu Award,” Kwon Jin Kyu Project Foundation/ Musashino Art University Department of Sculpture
2017 “SHIMIZU Takashi Award,” Musashino Art University
2017 “MONSTER Exhibition 2017 Grand Prize,” Evolve Art & Design Japan

About works

We measure the distance that starlight travels to reach Earth in units of time. In her artwork, she translates this idea into tangible forms by visualizing lines of light as representations of time. When creating sculptures, she carves the wood based on the silhouette of pencil drawings. Examining the thickness of the hollowed-out silhouette, she often contemplates the thickness of constellations. If we consider the thickness of light extending from a flat point as the thickness of time, even a small substance like the palm of a hand can visualize time's depth by allowing light to pass through. From this discovery, her works attempt to bring the invisible, including time, into visual existence through material exploration.