Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka Found a Blueprint for Survival in Ancestral Ways of Making
At the Venice Biennale and beyond, the Japanese Canadian artist turns handmade paper into sculpture that links psychological wellness, ecology and the attunement to nature modern life rejects. The solutions to humanity's problems, according to Hatanaka, are within reach, embedded in knowledge passed down from generation to generation: "This includes traditions that connect us to our bodies, to nature and to one another."
