Kintsugi of Fragmented Memories

• Main Authors: UDA, NAO, 宇田奈緒
• Other Authors: Chen, Chiao
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2455j3

碩士 === 國立臺南藝術大學 === 造形藝術研究所 === 107 === This thesis Kintsugi of Fragmented Memories discusses the visual artworks created by the author Nao Uda during her three years in the graduate program at Tainan National University of the Arts from 2016 to 2019. She works in photography, fictional storytelling, and ceramics as her mediums and makes spaces with video projection and photo books as her forms of creation. She uses the two concepts of Kinstugi (golden joinery), which are mending and inheriting of broken ceramics, as a metaphor for reconstructing and forwarding the intangible memories of the family from the past to the future. Nao Uda argues that the creative process and artworks function to mend, reconstruct, and reinterpret fragmented family memories caused by death and the passage of time, and discusses how the memories will be passed down to future generations in her photographs, ceramics, and fictional stories. This thesis will consider the question, “Can fragmented memories of lost family members be mended, filled, reinterpreted, and passed down to future generations by applying the concepts of “kintsugi” (golden joinery) in photography, fictional stories, and ceramics?” Four artworks will be discussed in four chapters on the themes of “kintsugi,” “photography,” “fiction,” and “liaison,” in addition to the introduction and conclusion.