Poko Poko travel
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Multi-talent young artist, the youngest that ever exhibited at Northing Space
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was born in 1978 in Kagawa, Japan, and grew up in Osaka. She works in various media and materials, including interactive sculptures in faux fur, painting, drawing, and textiles. Her works are characterized by a low-tech "DIY” aesthetics and are colorful, extravagant, and humorous. She often collects materials from her travels and incorporates them into her works. Electronic music and video are also part of her art practice, along with the design of clothing collections, everyday objects, and artist books. Kawai has an extensive international exhibition history.
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was born in 1983 in Philadelphia, USA. He studied filmmaking at the New York Film Academy before working as a cinematographer on several motion picture projects. Now he focuses both on still and motion pictures.
Opening
6th July
8-year-old Poko is always travelling, together with her mother Japanese artist Misaki Kawai and her father American photographer Justin Waldron. In the summer, there’s a high chance for you to spot them in their vibrant-coloured casual outfits in a park in downtown Copenhagen (That’s how we bumped into them for the first time). In the autumn they might appear somewhere in North America. Winter is the time for a tropical Asian beach or jungle in Thailand or Lao, and with the cherry blossoms, they might spring up in the spring on the streets of Osaka or Shanghai. Meanwhile Poko is also enjoying a versatile home education from her exploratory and loving parents. She’s mastering several languages with reading and writing, learning geography and the culture embedded in the places they visited through travelling, and having lots of time for creative activities like art and handcrafts, dancing and singing, and not the least cooking.
With the extraordinary weather that gives us a taste of the earlier-than-usual Nordic summer, came the Poko family to Norway! At Northing Space, we will host a special exhibition for the whole family! There’ll be video documentations, photography, textile works, fun objects they collected on the way, and Poko’s art homework. We are also setting up a playroom for families in Bergen to explore the infinite fun with primary colours and the basic form of a circle.
Misaki Kawai is also to open a solo exhibition at Stavanger Art Museum titled “Moko Moko Club” on the 25th of May which will last until March 2025. The exhibition at Stavanger Art Museum is her first solo exhibition in Norway.
