Japan Media Arts Festival Special Program presents the animation works of YUKI Yoko

Experiencing YUKI Yoko ‘s work is like encountering an intriguing and fascinating folk art form at the flea market. It is both a work of art and a fascinating gift engraved with the artist’s life experiences. In a nutshell, Yuki’s work is brilliant!

There are several works that are probably based on the artist’s actual experience. Seeing reality through Yuki’s eyes is fascinating. This new world-realistic but imaginary, familiar but foreign-is right there and invites you in.

If we were to define poetry as wordplay that deviates from the traditional use of that word, Yuki’s work would undoubtedly be considered visual poetry.

(From the intro by curator KUTSUNA Kenichi – Animator, Animation Director, University Lecturer) https://jmaf-promote.jp/en/screening_program/japan-media-arts-festival-s…

The program includes the following animated works by the artist:

BARIKAN 2010. A Happy New Year, 2010, 3’01”

See ya Mr. Banno! 2014, 4’23”

Zdravstvuite! 2015, 5’36”

Lost Summer Vacation 2015, 2’30”

Ohori park 2016, 9’26”

100 Percent Electrical 2017, 14’47”

A Snowflake into the Night 2018, 6′

ShalaBonBon 2019, 2’2”

In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-weeny Pocket 2022, 6’37”

Uki Yoko

Born in 1987 in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, she now lives in Tokyo. From an early age, YUKI Yoko loved to draw and play with the camera. He creates films that draw inspiration from what is observed in his daily life, using various artistic media, different techniques and materials. His works include See ya Mr. Banno, based on a distant and strange memory from his childhood; Zdravstvuite! depicting a day spent with an old man he met in Yokohama; A Snowflake into the Night, based on the artwork A Fable Told by the Wind by contemporary artist KONOIKE Tomoko; ShalaBonBon, a music video in collaboration with Bonno Shimizu; and In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-weeny Pocket, his latest work inspired by his illustrated diary.