Artists

Aya MOMOSE & Satoshi NISHIZAWA

Photographed by Satoshi Nishizawa

Duo consisting of artist Aya MOMOSE and photographer and filmmaker Satoshi NISHIZWA.

Aya MOMOSE

Born in Tokyo in 1988. Completed her graduate studies in art at Musashino Art University’s Graduate School of Art and Design in 2013. In recent years, she has questioned the relationship between one’s body and voice through video.
Her recent major solo exhibitions include Borrowing the Other Eye(ESPACE DIAPHANES, 2018); her main group exhibitions include Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice (Mori Art Museum, 2016) and Artist File 2015 Next Doors: Contemporary Art in Japan and Korea (The National Art Center, Tokyo and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, 2015-2016).

Satoshi NISHIZAWA

Born in Nagano Prefecture, 1983. Graduated from the Department of Graphic Design at Tohoku University of Art and Design in 2008. His work is designed to attract attention to particular social and economic aspects from one’s surroundings recorded with a camera.
Currently, he is producing video in a group called “Crude Oil”, while observing and investigating Ueno Park.
His main exhibitions include the Satoshi Nishizawa Exhibition: “Zekkei” (LIXIL Gallery 2, 2009) and “Romantic Geography” (TKG+, 2014)
One of his main screenings is the Satoshi Nishizawa Special Feature: “Hardcore of documentary”(UPLINK、2017).