Mari Katayama shares her creative process in Tate mini documentary 'Art should be for everyone'
'Art should be for everyone' – Mari Katayama | Tate
Creative Japanese artist Mari Katayama details her creative process 'Art should be for everyone' Tate modern mini documentary.
“Artist Mari Katayama creates hand-sewn sculptures and photographs that prompt conversations and challenge misconceptions about our bodies.
Born with the developmental condition congenital tibial hemimelia, Katayama chose to have her legs amputated at the age of nine. Her wearable sculptures, which also feature in her images, often include limbs, hands and embellished hearts.
In this short film, we visit Katayama’s at her studio in Japan and hear about how she uses everyday materials that she finds around her – including her own body, clothes and newspaper clippings – to make her sculptures and images. As she says, 'I use materials that anyone can get anywhere. I think that the needle and the thread are the strongest tools.'“
——— Tate Gallery