LENA TAKABAYASHI

The bartering project of a book becomes another book and keeps circulating.

I filmed the scenes that I distribute sandwiches in the group exhibition entitled Communication Sandwich.

I held a workshop about making mayonnaise to make emulsification happen between people who are strangers to each other.

The performance of eating book titles to make myself read my own tsundoku books.

I made two sheets of paper from hair, to connect dots between myself and the nameless sisters of the Little Mermaid.

I made a book from the zine cutouts, because I thought throwing them away was wasteful, and there appeared a Mottainai Obake [Wasteful Ghost].

The performance video using projection to show the shifting skin.

I made hanging scrolls with kimono fabric, using cyanotype to print my self-portrait of installing my own avatar.

I kept taking photos from snapshots to staged photos, through August to December 2024, and I reconstructed those and made one series about asexuality.

I made an installation using ten pairs of photos hanging from a string, to challenge the definition of drawing and its boundary.