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A Boy who Sews Forever is a meditation on the changing world of textiles. The sewing machine represents many things: the Industrial Revolution, the decline of handiwork and gender perceptions. Using this multivalent tool, the author of this book, Aoyama Satoru (b. 1973) fashions humorous and satirical works that encapsulate the many issues and contradictions that abound in this world.
The beginnings of his career stretch back to studying textile art at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was one of the few male students on a programme that was made up from 90 percent female students. Aoyama subsequently developed an informed awareness of both the role of applied art and the labour and feminist issues underlying the textile industry.
With Aoyama’s art being emblematic of the deprivation of the joys of handiwork by automation In today’s society, the world he conjures speaks to us with quiet, yet profound insight. This collection, the artist’s first, brings together a selection of roughly 150 works created over twenty years from early to most recent, enriched throughout by Aoyama’s own commentary.
Aoyama Satoru, born in 1973 in Tokyo and studied textiles from Goldsmiths, University of London, graduating in 1998 and earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2001. Using a 1940s industrial sewing machine, he produces a prolific body of artworks that probe the ever-shifting value of labour and of humanity. In recent years he has also actively branched out into other work, including holding art seminars and student workshops.
Seigensha, 176pp, 26cm x 18cm, illustrated paperback, 2024