Artist. Born in Tokyo in 1980 and lives in Saitama.
Dealing with events that happen or happened in the contemporary society and history from which people look away, Usui views her personal experiences and questions as social and political, and studies them through reference books and interviews for research so as to create a variety of works from the two-dimensional to installations using familiar techniques and materials such as handcrafts. Her major solo exhibitions include “shadow work” (Oyama City Kurumaya Museum of Art, 2016). In recent years, she has participated in many group exhibitions including Aichi Triennale 2019 (Nagoya City Art Museum, etc.) and Assembridge NAGOYA 2019 (the Nagoya Port area). At VOCA Exhibition 2018, she won the grand prize, VOCA Award.
URL: https://yuiusui.com/

Textile/Visual artist. Born in Osaka in 1989 and lives in Hanoi, Vietnam and Osaka.
Graduated from Textiles Course, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, and Ars Shimura. Endo intends to explore the essence of crafts rooted in everyday life from the perspective of contemporary art. As she believes that complex social facts are woven into textiles, she collects fabrics and repeatedly uses and repairs them. In recent years, she continues to visit different places in East Asia, mainly Okinawa and Vietnam, to conduct research on and collect respective local textiles. Her major solo exhibitions include “Gravity and Rainbow,” the 13th shiseido art egg, Endo Kaori Exhibition (Shiseido Gallery, 2019) in which she won the grand prize, the 13th shiseido art egg award. She has participated in group exhibitions including “BARRAK: survibes,” in Bangkok Biennial 2018 (White Line, Thailand, 2018).

Artist. Born in Hualien, Taiwan in 1982 and lives there.
Completed master’s course of Temporary Space Design at Autonomous University of Barcelona. As a member of Truku tribe, indigenous people of Taiwan, she uses traditional weaving techniques while making use of her knowledge of jewelry design to create sculptural installations. Collaborating with weavers in the local community at times, she focuses on the female body and identities. While having participated in many exhibitions including international shows in Taiwan, she opens her exhibition for the first time in Japan. Her major exhibitions include “Taiwan Biennial: The Possibility of an Island” (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2016) and “Hiding in the Island” (Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, 2017).