TUJ Art Full House, 2021
Full House is a short animation film produced through a variety of techniques including collage, monotype printmaking, and stop motion. The soundtrack mixes different sounds recorded inside of three separate houses, such as the noise produced by doors opening and closing, stairs, light switches, as well as fragments of conversations.
Belonging, 2019
Belonging is a photography series shot during the summer of 2019, documenting forgotten bicycles in various neighborhoods of Tokyo.
For two months, I walked around neighborhoods in Tokyo in search of abandoned bicycles as part of my final project for an introductory art photography class. I was interested in how such an organized and clean metropolitan city like Tokyo could have so many abandoned bicycles left in the most unthinkable places. In addition, I questioned what could have led the owners to leave them behind, especially since some of them appeared to be still in good condition. Even though these bicycles might have been forgotten by their owners, they seemed to have adapted to their new surroundings and created a place in which they now belong, whether it be tangled up by the thick foliage of a backyard or amongst the flowers that grow in the narrow space between two buildings.
Narumi Imayuki’s Biography
Narumi Imayuki, a native of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is a contemporary visual artist and writer living in Tokyo, Japan. Her family heritage, multiethnic background, and experience of growing in different countries influence her multidisciplinary practice.
Much of Imayuki’s pieces explore her passion to document and catalog the world around her to explore concepts like home, family, love, and loss. Through exploring and incorporating different techniques and imagery, she draws the audience’s attention to the trivial, neglected parts of life, encouraging them to rethink their value in relation to their personal history.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art from Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University Japan Campus (TUJ). Her artworks have been shown in exhibitions in Japan, including “Fragments” and “Temple University, Japan Campus X Showa Women’s University Joint Exhibition” at TUJ’s Art Gallery in Tokyo.