Mio Hashimoto Exhibition --Creatures that tell the time--

The animal sculptures created by Mio Hashimoto (born 1980) have a warmth and even a sense of breathing. This is because they are not "animals that exist somewhere," but animals that live close to Mio Hashimoto, or animals that she has encountered and interacted with on her travels, and each of them is reproduced as it is, reflecting the individuality and memories of each animal.

She dreamed of becoming a veterinarian, but in 1995 she was affected by the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and witnessed the scene where animals were lost in an instant. This experience prompted her to want to preserve the brilliance of even lost lives in the form of sculpture.

The theme of this exhibition is "time," and it traces the trajectory of the animals in question by connecting them with the time that Hashimoto Mio herself has spent in her life.

The exhibition will include sculptures, including new works, as well as previously unseen works created after the disaster while he was still a student at art university, sketches of animals that he carefully observed before creating his works, and notes recording the personalities of each model.

Through Hashimoto Mio's works, this exhibition allows visitors to experience the meaning of remembering and preserving in a tangible form the lives of the animals who live alongside us humans.