Yuiko Ráyka 來迦結子

• This series of light art is a viewer-participatory and interactive light installation work. The "Selfverse" is the viewer's own world of infinite possibilities that he/she created.

• The viewer uses a flashlight to shine the light on reflective materials (aurora film, hologram sheets, mirror balls, etc.) installed in exhibition space, and the illusionary reflections are projected onto the walls and ceiling. This work invites the viewer to interact, contemplate, and investigate the process of visual creation.

• Viewers will be able to take the reflective materials and freely reconfigure them to create their own unique reflections while enjoying various experiments. Viewers will be pleasantly surprised by the beautiful scene that suddenly appears, as if by magic. Collaborating with other viewers, they will be able to integrate and expand their own worlds. Each viewer's world of infinite possibilities. This action and phenomenon is called "SELFVERSE".

• The viewer can freely rearrange the reflective materials to update his or her "Selfverse". Depending on their ingenuity, viewers can create their own unique reflections. Moreover, by communicating and collaborating with other viewers through light, they can unify and further expand their "Selfverses".

• This analogue interaction, without any programming or digital equipment, will result in a one-of-a-kind creation by the viewers.

• This open-ended, unlimited, simple, fun and playful experiential installation will ignite the potential of people of all ages . Yuiko Ráyka believes that this light-experimentation as an art medium provides an opportunity to enhance self-expansion powered by one's own creativity. As in recent years, we have experienced many difficulties and changes, and as we enter a new era, each of us must evolve spiritually. The artist hopes that her work "SELFVERSE" will contribute to people's awakening for the future. We will use our creativity and potential to create the new era.

• Yuiko Ráyka is a Japanese contemporary artist, born and currently lives in Tokyo, Japan.

• She works in mixed media, ligth art, installations, media art, NFTs, and expression utilizing VR and the metaverse.

• Her body of work is to focus on the unknown potential of each of us as human beings and our evolving spirits toward a new era. She attempts to create multidimensional expressions that work in the realm of human consciousness by combining physical experiences with non-physical medium. In recent years, she has been creating interactive installations that emphasize experience and media works utilizing VR, Metaverse and NFT.

• Graduated from Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Art, BFA in painting in 2003. Studied at the Australian National University School of Art & Design, majoring in Gold & Silversmithing as an exchange student in 2001 - 2002. During her student days, she was exposed to a variety of materials and tried her hand at expression through two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and installation works.

• After graduating from university, she moved to Germany in 2004 and worked as a graphic designer at a video production company in Dusseldorf.

• Upon returning to Japan, she worked as a graphic designer then after she started her career as an illustrator in 2010 (under a different name). Her works have been used for the cover of the paperback edition of Sayaka Murata's "Hoshi ga sū mizu" (Kodansha), NHK TV program character design, fashion brand "deep sweet easy", Excel Hotel Tokyu guest room artwork, and stage art etc.

• In 2014, she shifted her main focus to artistic activities and began creating mixed media and installations. Currently, she has three series: "SELFVERSE," an experiential installation, "SOUL GEMS," an installation and media art, and "Unknown Power," a mixed media series, which have been shown at art fairs and exhibitions around the world.

• Since 2021, she has been presenting digital works as NFTs (under the name AURORA) and participating in many national and international events and projects.

• In 2022, she began embarking on an expression utilizing VR and the metaverse.

• AWARDS:

2021【NFT】#BigBangNFT Competition winner

2019 FLAG prize
2019 AFAF WARD 2019 finalist
2013 Taipei International art competition 2013 finalist
2012 WONDER SEEDS 2012

• EXHIBITIONS:

2023

"Music is • Selfverse" : Live Light & Painting Shows, Art Yī gallery, Brussels ,Belgium

Affordable Art Fair Brussels, stand Art Yī gallery, Belgium

2022

Beautiful World Exhibition (Kawamura Noh-Theater, Kyoto)
CONTEXT Art Miami, Solo Exhibition "SELFVERSE: Sparkling Heart" (Miami, USA)

Solo Exhibition "SOUL GEMS META" (Kyoto)

【NFT】#NFFT_2022 ”New Future Fashion x Technology (Tokyo)

Seattle Art Fair 2022 (Seattle, USA)
【NFT】CRYPTO ART FES 2022 (conata, Metaverse)
【NFT】SBINFT Market Renewal Exhibition (SBINFT Gallery, Decentraland, Metaverse)
London Art Fair 2022 (London, UK)
Made in Japan 3.0: Defining a New Phy-gital Reality (K11 Art Mall, Hong Kong)

2021
Solo Exhibition "INTO THE SELFVERSE" (Kyoto)
WHEREABOUTS (Tokyo)
【NFT】CAWA Crypto Art Week Asia in Tokyo (Voxels, Metaverse / CIRCUS Tokyo, Tokyo)
【NFT】nanakusa presents THE GALLERY (Voxels, Metaverse)
【NFT】SBINFT×POW!WOW!JAPAN "VIRTUAL SHIRAHAMA" (Voxels, Metaverse)
【NFT】Artistake presents Halloween Exhibition (Voxels, Metaverse)

2020

Affordable Art Fair Milan 2020 (Milan)
Group show "Mostra di Artisti Giapponesi Contemporanei" (monogramma arte contemporanea, Roma)
Group show "FIRST STEP EXHIBITION" as an invited artist (Kyoto)
Group show "Whereabouts in Osaka" (Atelier Sangatsu, Osaka)

2019

Group show "My Collection" (Osaka)
Group show "FLAG" ( Osaka)
ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA AWARD 2019 (Fkukuoka Asia Art Museum, Fukuoka)

2018

Solo Exhibition "Soul Collection" (The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo)
"The World of The Small and Big Universe" (Daizenin-Temple, Kyoto)

2017

SICF18 (Spiral Hall, Tokyo)
Art Stage Jakarta 2017 (Jakarta)
KOBE ART MARCHÉ 2017 (Kobe)
Art Expo Malaysia Plus 2017 (Kuala Lumpur)
Le Japon (Espace Japon, Paris)

2016

ART KAOHSIUNG 2017 (Kaohsiung)

2015

independent (Tokyo)
ART KAOHSIUNG 2015 (Kaohsiung)
Art Fair Sapporo 2015 (Sapporo)
Affordable Art Fair NYC 2015 (New York City)
Young Art Taipei 2015 (Taipei)

2014

Young Art Taipei 2014 (Taipei)

2013
Group show "Seven Japanese emerging artists" (Taipei)
FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY VISIONS -ART CLOUD#1 (Multiverso, Florence)
BERLINER LISTE 2013 (Berlin)
Young Art Taipei 2013 (Taipei)
Cologne Paper Art 2013 (Cologne)

2012

WONDER SEEDS 2012 (Tokyo wonder site Shibuya, Tokyo)
Art exhibition of commemorating 20th Anniversary of Japan-Armenia Relations (Museum of Russian Art, Yerevan)
YOUNG ARTISTS JAPAN vol.5　(Tokyo)
NEW CITY ART FAIR 2012 TAIPEI (Taipei)

2011

Solo Exhibition "CIRCUS CIRCUS!" (The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo)
Solo Exhibition "CIRCUS CIRCUS! The Second Act" (Taisedo Shibuya, Tokyo)
ULTRA004 (Spiral, Tokyo)

Yuiko Ráyka 來迦結子 Japanese, b. 1978

"MUSIC IS • SELFVERSE"

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