Hisae Ikenaga
Hisae Ikenaga (born in Mexico City in 1977) studied art theory and visual arts in Mexico, Kyoto, Barcelona and Madrid. She lives in Luxembourg and works between Luxembourg and Spain. Her work has been presented in numerous individual and collective exhibitions in Cuba, Spain, Japan, Colombia, Mexico, United States, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Portugal, Argentina, Peru , Sweden and Belgium. She has completed artist residencies in Barcelona, France, Miami and Italy.
In 2020, she received the LEAP20 - Luxembourg Encouragement for Artists Price and in 2021 her in situ project for the headquarters of the Luxembourg Order of Architects and Consulting Engineers (OAI) won first prize in the 1st Art in Situ OAI competition.
The residency at Bridderhaus aims to present a new series of works for her future exhibition at the Konschthal in 2024. During the months of June and July she will be concentrated on researching and reflecting on a series of ideas she wants to work on, which will certainly be modified by the environment, circumstances and atmosphere at the residency. She would like to make a series of pieces by "extrusion", a process that allows to create objects with fixed transverse profiles by pushing materials, usually metals, polymers, ceramics, concrete, modelling clay and food products.
This process being widely used in the metal industry, she hopes to be able to visit sites near Esch-sur-Alzette, to document herself.
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