祖母はジュエリーが好きな人でした。出かける時は全身を鏡に映して、服装に合う帽子とジュエリーを選んでいました。祖母が亡くなった後、よく着けていたブローチを形見として持っておきたいと思い探しました。金色で雫型に似た、槌目加工が施されたブローチです。しかし、今に至るまで見つかっていません。細部までよく覚えている唯一のジュエリーだったため残念な気持ちもありますが、物自体がないことがかえってそのブローチを強く印象づけている気がします。
目にしたり触れることはできないけれど記憶に残るもの。他の人にもそのようなものがあるのだろうかと思い、『不在のもの』にまつわる話を聞きました。
My grandmother was someone who loved jewellery. Whenever she went out, she would check her outfit in the mirror and choose a hat and jewellery to match. After she passed away, I wanted to keep a brooch she often wore as a keepsake, so I searched for it. It was a gold-coloured brooch, shaped like a drop, with a hammered texture. However, I have yet to find it. It was the only piece of jewellery I remember so clearly, and although I feel disappointed, perhaps its absence has made the memory of that brooch even more vivid.
I wondered if others had similar experiences, so I asked them about things of absence.
Mika Yamakoshi
Jewellery artist & hairdresser
WORKS:
Three Kinds of It, 2025
Never Want to Do This Again, 2025
Painting, 2025
The Exchange Example, 2024
Pieces, 2023
Object Lesson, 2022
Please Do Not Touch, 2017
A Consideration of the Rule, 2017
Stories of Absence, 2017
Pen/dant, 2017
Subjective Time Measurement, 2017
Take It With You —Slight Mercy—, 2015
EXHIBITIONS:
Artists' Fair Kyoto, Kyoto, JP, 2025
Pieces, SOOT, Tokyo, JP, 2023
Object Lesson, necoma, Tokyo, JP, 2022
Object Lesson, C7C gallery, Nagoya, JP, 2021
Artists' Fair Kyoto, Kyoto, JP, 2021
Object Lesson, Kamome Books, Tokyo, JP, 2020
Re-importation, Tokyo, JP, 2017
RESIDENCY:
TRACTOR, D’CLINIC Studios, HU, 2018
PUBLICATION:
Press, 2019
EDUCATION:
Jewellery Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL, 2017
Foundation Course, Central Saint Martins, London, UK, 2014
Nippon Beauty Academy, Tokyo, JP, 2006
BORN:
Tokyo, JP
CONTACT:
contact@mikyam.com
@_mikyam_