YUKIE LAURENTIA BEHEIM
ベーハイム 雪絵 ラオレンティア
Nohmasken / Nohmasks / 能面
まつ あう えん － The multiple I
exhibition at Art Live Theater International Kyoto
2021/12 - 2022/02
photos: YLB
Matsu / まつ
2020-2021
Au / あう
2021
En / えん
2021
photo: YLB
In Noh, a traditional form of theater in Japan, masks are an essential tool of transformation for the actor.
Fascinated by the livelyness, humanness and spiritual quality of such Nohmasks, I started to study Nohmask making in the end of 2019.
I investigate what Nohmasks can still tell us about what being human is - I believe that basic human emotions can be found in them that remain the same despite the huge changes in the world over the centuries.
Zwei Shōjō
Installation view at the group exhibition "Down the Rabbit Hole" at KiT Kunst im Tunnel Gallery, which is located underground right beside the River Rhine in Düsseldorf, Germany
2022/10 - 2023/01
photo: Jana Buch
photo: Jana Buch
photo: Jana Buch
Two Shōjō Nohmasks, twisted aluminium wire, two stones from the River Rhine
photo: Jana Buch
photo: Jana Buch
The masks are carved out of Japanese Cypress wood and then painted in the traditional japanese painting technique (Nihonga) - with bound pigments of seaschells and minerals, as well as with black sumi ink.
photos: YLB
Installation with Two Shōjō and Angelika
installation view at the group exhibition "京都人 －Next Generation Artists 2023" at Kyoto Prefecture Center for Arts and Culture
2023/03
Two Shōjō Nohmasks, aluminium wire, a stone from the Takano river, a stone from the Rhine, a Zōonna female Nohmask which I named "Angelika", watercolor on paper