Mayuko Okada

Mayuko Okada was born in Kyoto, Japan. She creates works from antique kimonos, weaving patterned narratives that are reminiscent of ukiyo-e scenographies. Her works are deeply unique for their defiance of medium-specificity, spurning textual narratives and dimensional sculptures alike. Mayuko takes that which we would have traditionally regarded as purposive, the textile purposed for making garb that would be decorously worn, and turns into something purposively purposiveless: fine art.