Yumi Erica Fukuda – SAIC Graduate Exhibition 2022

SAIC SHOWS 2022 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

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SAIC SHOWS 2022 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

Yumi Erica Fukuda

Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Sculpture

Graduate Exhibition Two (May)

yumiericafukuda@gmail.com

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Yumi Erica Fukuda (b. 1996 Shizuoka, Japan) is a graduate of Musashino Art University, Tokyo Japan (BFA 2019). Their works include sculpture, installation, and social practice.

They are currently based in the United States and working on their MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They’ve had a number of exhibitions including a “Senior Thesis” Exhibition at the Musashino Art University (Tokyo). “Mistaken Identity” a two person exhibition also at Musashino Art University. An art festival partner school project with Bandung Institute of Technology, Soemardja Gallery, Bandung. Awards and scholarships include the Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation, Arts Division Scholarship, the Musashino Art University Research room award (2019). The “University Professor Selected Award” (Kohei Kobayashi award 2017 and the Rikiya Iwakuma award also in 2017). Internship and studio assistant include “Tets Onari Studio,” Czech Republic, 2017 and “XHE Daniel Kok & Miho Shimizu” Tokyo, 2018.

Yumi Erica Fukuda - Terra de ninguém

Terra de ninguém, 2019, Installation, and participatory performance, dimensions variable

Yumi Erica Fukuda - Luck of senses

Luck of senses, Installation view, ball, milk, pot, name card, wire, and text

Yumi Erica Fukuda - Color Dialogue

Color Dialogue, 2021, Interactive work with plastic sheets, and acrylic paint, 8 x 6 in. each

Yumi Erica Fukuda - Please cut the mountain

Please cut the mountain, 2021, Participatory performance, dimensions variable

Yumi Erica Fukuda - Untitled

Untitled, 2018, Paper, shopping basket, acrylic paint, and wood, 25 × 36 × 20 in.

How to stand the goat foot, 2017, Performance, 6:27 mins.

Luck of senses (Sound), 2018, Sound

Condominium, 2018, Performance, 4:13 mins.

Artist Statement

In my practice I am often confronting names, lands, and words. People’s choices are based on inherited judgements and cultures. When asking participants to name objects, or the meaning of an action, their choice of words can reveal the influences of their background and identity. I am interested in the specificity of communication.

Through participatory performance, the work engages a series of tasks involving the ambiguity of bearing witness, dialogue and misunderstanding. I am drawn to that which is the same, but slightly different, which are therefore completely different. In doing so, I am exploring the individual judgement that occurs in a collective space. Conversation between private action, public action, and invisible protest are investigated and placed under pressure. At times these works manifest physical traces of meaning, and the potential of underlying evidence are brought to the surface.

Throughout the practice, I react to the present situation and continue to dismantle and reanalyze.