Aki Nagasaka

Installation with fabrics, objects, photographs and recorded stories / Approx 600cm x 700cm x 250cm

Started from my personal encounter with a German old lady, the project developed through our exchanges of letters and objects. Taking Italo Calvino’s same-titled meta novel as a model, I challenged to transform the research materials and our correspondence into the factual-fictional interwoven stories.

The in-progress project was presented at various stages and locations; the old lady’s house in Germany, Tromso, Norway, Porto, Portugal, and the complete work was presented in Vienna, Austria as an installation, followed by the project book published in Japan.

Listen to the Stories