he exhibition will feature installations made from and referring to items of everyday life such as furniture, dishes and kitchen and bathroom accessories. The artist is fascinated by everyday life, form, textures, the materials that surround objects. In Yoshida’s installations, objects change their scale and their properties. Showing them in a new sequence creates a new interpretation for them. The “unfunctional comfort” of the title is an experiment with the scale and the weight of objects. By stripping objects from their utilitarian function, the artist makes an attempt to give them an even more intimate character, closer to humans. Objects known from everyday life, shown in a new arrangement, become objects of contemplation.
The residential programme of the Kochański Suwalski Knut Fine Arts Foundation allows artists from outside Poland to carry out an artistic project during a longer stay in Warsaw. As part of the programme, the Foundation provides artists, as needed, with accommodation, work space, materials and funds for travel. Creative residencies are an important element of an artist’s functioning on the art market and co-operation with exhibiting institutions. Each residency carried out by the Foundation is intended to end with the opening of an exhibition in the Kohana Gallery.
The Nomura Foundation is a partner in Noriyo Yoshida’s residency.