Seiko Kato
Victorian aesthetics and the surreal pervade Seiko Kato’s eccentric and macabre illustrations, collage and montage, inspired by or constructed with items collected for the last five years including medical drawings and equipment, jewellery, lace, embroidery and clockwork. The figure and its persona, masks and puppetry recur in her pieces, the fetishist details and precious adornment of which gives her dolls with a haunting and beautiful humanity, and crowd her collages like sacred art or illuminations. Although she draws her primary inspiration from her personal collection of found objects itself, Kato also acknowledges surrealist precursor Hieronymous Bosch and the work of Jan Svankmajer.
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Sculpture
11cm x 33cm x 11cm
Found Objects, Cast Plastic Resin, Human Hair, Antique Lace
Surrealist, Craft, Illustration
The 'collection' project explores the process of transferring collage into 3D. Using objects that might appear incongruous but possess an aesthetic continuity the artist convincingly arrays a diversity material to form a single subject.
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