View of Dejima

Rumiko Hagiwara received a grant for the development of new work. Her project involves the 19th-century Japanese folding screen View of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay displayed at the Wereldmuseum Leiden. From her perspective as a Japanese woman living in the Netherlands, she will create a film essay by using the image of Dejima on the screen - the V.O.C. trading post and Japan's gateway to the Western culture and science. While gazing at the image of the gate in the Dutch museum, her imagination was sparked by the cultural interactions that took place on the island, evoking a sense of melancholy.

Rumiko is a Japanese artist based in Amsterdam. In her conceptual art practice, which includes site-specific installations, photos, films, and performances, she aims to twist points of attention and value on ordinary phenomena from her cross-cultural perspective, often resulting in a humorous poetics of the ordinary.