Lina Uchida earned an MA in Textile Arts in 2016. She specialises in using the traditional hariko technique, which consists of layering Japanese paper and glue over moulds to create sculptures with a hollow interior. Lina explores human metamorphosis through external and internal stimuli, paralleling physical and artistic transformation in a surreal visual language. Her three-dimensional installations on life and death evoke human body textures, contrasting the natural colour of papier-mâché with richly textured insects like moths. Lina has exhibited at the Kumamoto City Museum of Contemporary Art and Takamatsu City Museum of Art, focusing on themes of "intersection with others" and the interplay between the ordinary and extraordinary.
Lina Uchida