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Seiko Hayase

/ricardseiko /YouTube
/ricardseiko /YouTube
About the member

Born in Shiga, Japan in 1987. When she was a kid, her pleasure was drawing and making handmade
toys until her parents came back home. These are still her biggest pleasure… In 2014, she moved to Marseille, France. When she was living in Marseille, she went to Cork, Ireland and fell in love with Ballycotton’s view. Two years later, in 2018, she moved to Cork, Ireland! Her work explores the “World in-between” She’s been mostly using 2D media but now she is trying to develop her painting work to other media and make her expression grow.

Exhibitions

2022
Solo Exhibition, Connect 5 Bursary, GOMA Gallery Waterford.

2020
Cahoots: The Space Between, Sample-Studios, A4 Sounds and Engage Art Studios
ALL IN! Catalyst Arts Virtual Members Show – Catalyst Arts, Online : Group show
Annual Members’ Exhibition – Lavit Gallery, Cork: Group show
2013
Master graduation exhibition – Nagoya Civic Gallery Yada, Japan: Group show
2012
“PAC-BOM” – EKIMAE KOOCAN EKIMAE KOOCAN Kanazawa, Japan: Group show
2011
Varia Nagoya Art Fair – MATSUZAKAYA, Nagoya, Japan: Group show
Graduation exhibition – Aichi Prefectural Museum of Arts Nagoya, Japan: Group show

Residency

Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre 2021.

Seiko
Hayase

The world in-between
That’s what I call my art, when I try to define it.
Between reality and delusion, between beauty and ugliness, between fear and relief, between life and death.

One summer when I was a university student, I saw pigeons cannibalise another pigeon in a small driveway as I was commuting by bicycle. These universal symbols of peace, eating a weaker one of them that could barely move. There was a sense of intensity between the society I live in that regards doves as a symbol of peace and the pigeons’ society as they view it from their side.
For a few minutes I was suspended there in a deep breath, in the “world in-between”. The surrounding concrete walls, the cars passing by… and over my head the wide clear blue sky… It made me feel dizzy. And even now, this dizziness blurs the line between the society that spreads in front of me and my thoughts. With this mode of expression I call the world in between, this goal of my art work to keep confusing my contemporaries with this dizziness, it feels like it is my only tool to connect with society.

Seiko Hayase
Seiko Hayase
Seiko Hayase