[Reference artworks]
《A hut of the ship, by the former Minmaya village Yoroijima》
pinhole photographs, Lambda print, 1150×1440mm, 2016 ©CHIBA Naoko

 

千葉奈穂子写真展 ‘Northern Lights’
会期： 2018年9月6日－2018年9月27日
会場： Gallery KOPIO （ロヴァニエミ市、フィンランド）
助成： 公益財団法人野村財団、公益財団法人ポーラ美術振興財団、公益財団法人朝日新聞文化財団、スカンジナビア・ニッポンササカワ財団
特別協力： Artist-in-residence Waria Artbreak AIR (フィンランド), ラップランド大学芸術デザイン学部芸術文化研究科 (フィンランド)

 

[Solo Exhibition]　Naoko Chiba ‘Northern Lights’
Date: September 6, 2018－September 27, 2018
Venue: Gallery KOPIO (Rovaniemi City, Finland)
Supporting grants from: Nomura Foundation, The Pola Art Foundation, The Asahi Shimbun Foundation, The Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation
Special cooperation: Artist-in-residence: Waria Artbreak AIR (Finland), The University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design, Art and Culture Studies (Finland)

 

 

‘Northern Lights’

千葉奈穂子写真展 「Northern Lights」会場風景 2018年
会場: Gallery KOPIO
撮影: 千葉奈穂子
Exhibition view: Naoko Chiba Photo Exhibition ‘Northern Lights’, 2018
Venue: Gallery KOPIO
Photo: Naoko Chiba

 

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フィンランド北部にありますラップランド大学内ギャラリーコピオで個展を開催しました。
この夏、イーのアーティスト･イン･レジデンスに滞在して撮影した作品は、ラップランド地域のアイデンティティーや地域に残る手仕事、サーミ文化についてリサーチしたものです。展覧会では、ブオツォ、シモヤルビ、サーミの方々が狩猟をしたポシオの山、ダム湖建設で人がいなくなったソンピオのムテニア村の写真が含まれています。2ヶ月の滞在中にピンホールカメラで撮影した新作と、ゼラチン･シルバー･プリントのコンタクトプリント、あわせて24点を展示しました。
フィンランドの滞在は、Waria Artbreak AIRとラップランド大学の共同事業により提供されました。また公益財団法人野村財団、公益財団法人ポーラ美術振興財団、公益財団法人朝日新聞文化財団、スカンジナビア・ニッポンササカワ財団からの御助成と、多くの方々の支えで行うことができました。心から感謝申し上げます。

 

Naoko Chiba’s (Japan) exhibition in Gallery Kopio, at the University of Lapland from 6th till 27th of September 2018.
Photographer Naoko Chiba (b.1972) is from Tōhoku, Iwate, the northern part of Japan. She has studied visual arts and art education at the University of Iwate and at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Gunma.
For Chiba, it is important to describe the old culture of rural life, threatened with the disappearance of modernization of society. As well as the signs of old nature religion, which have survived from ancient times both in Tohoku and Finnish Lapland. ‘With my story, I would also like to try to strengthen confidence between man and nature’, says Naoko Chiba. Chiba has also documented for about 20 years her family’s degrading farm in Japan creating a series of “My father’s house” recently exhibited at the Northern Photographic Centre in Oulu.
The exhibition in Gallery Kopio will present the research and artistic process related to Chiba’s residency visit in the late summer in Eastern Lapland, as she has studied the local identity, old tools and methods of the area, as well as the remaining marks of the old Sámi culture, In Mutenia, Vuotso, Simojärvi and Posio. Photographs include contact gelatin silver prints and prints made with hand-made pinhole camera that requires long exposure time.
Chiba’s artist residence in Finland is provided by the collaboration of Waria Artbreak AIR and The University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design, Art and Culture Studies as well as the following Japanese supporters: Nomura Foundation, Pola Art Foundation, The Asahi Shinbun Foundation and The Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation.