TOMOKO MIYAZ
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Tomoko Miyaz is a Japanese contemporary artist based in Curitiba, Brazil. Her practice navigates the intersections of memory, body, and emotional landscapes, often drawing on intimate personal experiences to evoke collective reflection. Unbound by materiality, she takes advantage of contemporaneity to use different types of techniques and materials. The transition and blending of two-dimensionality with three-dimensionality often flows and merges. She is currently completing a solo exhibition centered on the experience of miscarriage—a topic that remains largely unspoken despite its depth and emotional prevalence. Through sculpture, installation, and video, the project gives form to absence, exploring grief, transformation, and the silent narratives carried in the body. It invites the viewer into a space of tenderness and confrontation, where personal loss becomes a shared investigation into care and remembrance. She is also beginning to develop a second body of work, rooted in the symbolic language of dreams and the unconscious. Still in its early stages, this project will engage with dream imagery and psychoanalytic thought.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Artist Statement – Tomoko Miyaz
I am a Japanese visual artist based in Brazil, working across sculpture, collage, and poetic installations. My artistic process begins in silence — often in dreams, memories, or unresolved emotions — and takes shape in materials that mimic skin, organs, or viscera.
I create from the tensions between presence and absence, especially in relation to bodily loss and transformation. My ongoing project A Perda Dela explores miscarriage as both a physical and existential rupture. Using red resin, fabric, foam, and painted textures that echo blood and flesh, I build hybrid objects that carry emotional residue.
Another current work, A casa que respira sombra, emerges from dream imagery tied to my unconscious, involving symbols like goats, blood, shadows, and ancestral women. It engages with psychoanalysis (Jung, Lacan) and aims to build a symbolic architecture of inner life.
My practice is independent, self-funded, and shaped by a strong commitment to artistic honesty and personal mythology. As an artist, I’m interested in intimate pain, but also in the strange beauty that arises from it.
