3/23 Yuko Kaneko Photo Exhibition (Garden Project)

Kyushu University Social Art Lab hosted the Garden Project, a photo exhibition by the San Francisco-based photographer Hiroyo Kaneko. The Garden Project is an initiative in which people from many different walks of life, including ex-convicts, people from low-income households, and young people who have faced difficult situations at home find ways to connect with the community at large through working in agriculture. Ms Kaneko herself took part in the project and documented it with her camera.

The first day of the exhibition also included a talk.

Hiroyo Kaneko Photo Exhibition: Garden Project

[Dates]
Saturday, March 23rd (Saturday) to 29th (Friday), 2019, 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. (First day opens at 1:30 p.m. Last day ends at 4:00 p.m.)

[Venue]
Design Commons 2nd Floor, Kyushu University Ohashi Campus (4-9-1 Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka)

[Admission]
Free

Hiroyo Kaneko
Born in 1963 in Aomori Prefecture, Ms Kaneko now resides in Oakland, California. After graduating from the Meiji Gakuin University Department of French Literature, she spent time in the corporate world, before studying photography in London. She has worked as a photographer and writer since 1998. In 2003, she began graduate studies at San Francisco Art Institute, earning an MFA in Photography in 2005. In 2009, she received the Santa Fe Prize for Photography, a U.S. award for up-and-coming photographers, for Sentimental Education, a collection of photographs of her family bathing. She is set to release Appearance, a series of portraits of people singing, in fall 2019.

Talk
[Date]
March 23rd 2019 (Saturday), 2:00–5:00 p.m.

[Venue]
Design Commons 2nd Floor, Kyushu University Ohashi Campus, 4-9-1 Shiobaru Minami-ku Fukuoka

[Admission]
Free

[Reserving a Seat]
To reserve a seat, please contact us by March 20th (Wednesday) 2019 by email or fax, or via the Social Art Lab (SAL) website, with the required information listed below. The contact information is also listed below.

Hiroyo Kaneko (Photographer)
Mika Kobayashi (Photography Researcher / Visiting Researcher, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
Kumiko Omatsu (Executive Director, Sannomori School / Principal, Mitsubachi Ouchi-en)
Coordinator: Mia Nakamura (Associate Professor, Kyushu University Faculty of Design)
Program Director: Tsukasa Muraya (Researcher, Kyushu University Social Art Lab)

Kyushu University Social Art Lab (SAL) is committed to tackling social issues. By researching, teaching, practicing, and generating ideas for social art, which SAL considers to be any artistic praxis that creates new bonds between people, SAL aims to show the world new, raw forms of value.

Co-Sponsor:
Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts and Cultural Promotion

With Assistance From:
Project for the Promotion of Arts and Culture at Universities 2018, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan

Supported By:
Japan Association for Arts Management Kyushu Branch