[SAORI KANDA] Participating in the world's largest art fair, Art Basel Miami Beach

SAORI KANDA, an artist represented by YUGEN Gallery, has been selected to exhibit at Art Basel Miami Beach 2024, which will be held in Miami Beach, USA from Friday, December 6th to Sunday, December 8th, 2024. Her work will be officially exhibited with the support of Assemblage Co., Ltd. after a strict selection process recommended by START GROUP (an Italian company that served as Corporate Patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2023).

Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB) is one of the world's largest art fairs, an international event that brings together galleries, artists, and collectors from around the world. This year's event will bring together a diverse range of works from North America, Europe, Asia, and South America, showcasing the latest art trends. Saori Kanda's appearance on this stage will be a big step in her art receiving even more global recognition.

Saori Kanda, known as the "dancing artist," has been highly praised around the world for her innovative style that combines dance, music, and painting. As a performing art, she elevates art performance to a sacred ceremony, and her improvised works, created with prayer and wholeheartedness, are full of the dynamism of a hymn to life, and the energy of her colors and brushstrokes is based on the theme of liberating the joy of the soul.

He has held solo exhibitions and art performances throughout Japan as well as on international stages in cities such as New York, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Taiwan, and France, captivating audiences from all over the world.

The "Vibration" series, which will be on display this time, inspires viewers with an emotional response through the dialogue between flowing pigments and powerful brushstrokes. Those who come into contact with the works are given a special experience that makes them feel the essence and passion of life.

Art performance by SAORI KANDA at Musashino Art University (Photo Yusuke Sato)

The Dragon Of Love is a work created as part of the art performance of the mythological stage play "Towatoha" held in spring 2024.
Obsidian excavated from Nagano Prefecture's Nagano Town is embedded in the dragon's eyes.

SAORI KANDA
SAORI KANDA
SAORI KANDA
Contemporary artist. Her work as a "dance artist," a unique ceremony art performer that involves various expressions such as sound, dance, clothing, fragrance, and food to satisfy the five senses, has been recognized as a performing art, and she has been invited to perform in various parts of the world, including China, Europe, the United States, Kazakhstan, and India. In 2020, she started a series of works with the themes of "Goddess Blossoming" and "Liberation of Sacred Eros." Her works incorporate the importance of facing "sex" as a source of life in the view of life and death, and loving oneself again. She has collaborated with many companies, including NISSAN, Canon, and ALFA ROMEO. Her previous solo exhibitions include the Okaya Museum of Art and Archaeology (2023) and NIPPON GALLERY in New York (2023).