From Dust to Pulse
BY FEATURED ARTIST: YOHANA OIZUMI
Yohana Oizumi, do pó ao pulso (From Dust to Pulse), inkjet printing on cotton paper, 27.6 x 59 inches, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.
From Dust to Pulse
YOHANA OIZUMI | APR 2022 | ISSUE 15
Performance permeates all my reflection and work experience, which influences my drawings, photographs, installations, and sculptures. Deconstructing and rebuilding are the main guidelines that move my artistic practice, in a clash with clay, metal, glass, wood, and other materials. I evoke what I consider sacred and subversive to elucidate the release of the body to the exhaustion and transformation of what I intend to honor, risk, and ritualize.
In this piece, I placed myself inside a circle of 3 meters in diameter. My height is 1.50 meters, so it looks like several of me. Inside the circle is clay, paper, and white fabrics, which are mostly my lingeries. I was thinking about approaching feminine issues such as chastity and impurity at the same time. It’s a circle of protection and imprisonment, too. Much of my work is an inquiry into awakening, from dust to pulse, of pulsating life. I chose to photograph this from above, as if being watched by a divine being.
Yohana Oizumi is a Brazilian visual artist who lives and works in São Paulo. In 2019, she graduated from the University Center of Fine Arts in São Paulo. In her studies, Oizumi prioritizes the experience as well as the observation of the transformations that occur within herself and the materialities. Through her performance, drawing, photography, and sculpting, she proposes defiant possible readings regarding sensorial projections of the act of deconstruction, ritualizing, and repurposing.
She was Artist of The Month for Art Connect Magazine in February 2021 (Berlin). She has had numerous exhibitions in Brazil, including the Centro Cultural dos Correios, Museu de Belas Artes de São Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake Núcleo de Cultura, Goethe Institut; in Portugal, the Bienal de Cerveira, Centro para os Assuntos de Artes e Arquitectura; in South Korea at the CICA MUSEUM; in Cuba at FIVAC; in Lithuania at Šiluva Art biennial ’21; in The Netherlands, Vincent Van Gogh Photo Award.