With The House Rabbit Society Project / BACKYARD, Shinobu Akimoto creates both a physical and a metaphoric space that considers the practice of art-making. Using seemingly banal subject matter such as the lives of house pets and advertisements in local newspapers, Akimoto demystifies the notion of an art practice. Through the sculptural installation of The House rabbit Society Project series as well as the three video projections of BACKYARD, Akimoto negotiates how the artistic and domestic transect in her daily living.
Artist Bio
Shinobu Akimoto
Shinobu Akimoto was born in Japan in 1965, and has degrees from Kanagawa University, The University of Victoria, and The University of Western Ontario. She has travelled extensively, lived in different countries , and worked at various occupations. Lately she stays home and watches plants grow, and contemplates lifestyle and nothingness until something else happens. Recent exhibitions include Quoting Commercailism at The Walter Phillips Gallery, a four-person exhibition that will travel to a number of small prairie galleries over the next two years.