Video: "One Hundred Pounds of Rice" for Saeri Kiritani. Self-portrait sculpture made from a million rice grains
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Japanese artist Sayeri Kiritani, now living in New York, created for herself … No, not an idol, but her own double, completely and completely sculpted from rice. Unusual life-size self-portrait sculpture is a project called 100 pounds of rice, which Sayeri Kiritani submitted to the self-portrait competition. Why exactly from rice? Sayeri Kiritani willingly answers this mostly rhetorical question. She was born and raised in Japan, where rice makes up the bulk of the diet. Some even joke that Japanese body cells are made up mostly of rice. All over the world, this product is considered a symbol of Japan, and since it is also part of the artist's self-identification, she had no doubts about what material to make a self-portrait from.
Made from over a million rice grains, the 152 cm tall sculpture weighs about 100 pounds (approximately 42 kg). A paste was made from rice flour, and the artist even made her twin's hair from rice, more precisely, from rice noodles. This project is believed to be the largest artwork ever made from rice.
More than 3,000 entries were submitted for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, but only 48 projects were selected for the exhibition. It is known that Sayeri Kiritani's rice self-portrait took one of the prizes in this competition. The final exhibition opens March 23 at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery.
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