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今井瑠衣子 Ruiko
Imai
Ruiko
Imai

Ruiko
Imai
Profile
  • 1991 Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
  • 2014 Tama Art University Graduate School
  • 2017 Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop
  • Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
  • 01 Exhibitions More
  • 02 Awards More
  • 03 Public Collections More

About
the Artist
About
the Artist

The fragile memories of youth, captured within the ephemeral beauty of glass, glittering softly like snow underneath moonlit skies. Ruiko Imai (1991- ) is a fascinating new artist to emerge onto the contemporary glass scene, recreating found objects of one’s childhood from sewed brass wire mesh and powdered glass. It is the warmth of the family home, the sights and sounds of growing up surrounded by the beauty of things and who and where they belong to, the protection, security and comfort of everyday life, that Imai has so poetically encapsulated in elegant fragility. Like soft snow covering her objects with a gentle glow, Imai’s works are odes to family, warmth and the beauty within where we have been and where we are now, the music of youth and growing up. Memories may fade, yet her works will remain, entrapped for eternity in the warmth of Imai’s white glass.