August 5 (Tue) – September 14 (Sun), 2025
Opening hours: 11:00-19:00 (last entry 18:45)
Closed: Mondays
＊We are closed for the summer holidays from August 12-18.
＜Exhibition Outline＞
NATALIE TSYU’s solo exhibition, “Ash Holds the Nest — Sound Hatches in Heat Tears Boil Down the Throat of an Ash-Filled Womb”, will be held from Tuesday, August 5 to Sunday, September 14, 2025.
This immersive installation navigates the body’s response to tension, transforming pain into sound. Materials like salt, heat, and responsive electronics generate unstable sonic environments. Frequencies emerge not as music, but as signals of survival—glitches, pulses, tremors. Visitors encounter a charged space where sound replaces language, and memory clings to surfaces. The body is present —even when absent. We warmly invite you to experience these artworks for yourself at CREATIVE HUB UENO “es”.
“Ash Holds the Nest ― Sound Hatches in Heat Tears Boil Down the Throat of an Ash-Filled Womb” 2025 / Interactive Sound Installation, Mixed Media
A multisensory composition exploring resonance, decay, and embodied memory through organic and electrical materials. Installation size: adaptable to space
Interactive Sessions
This installation features four interactive sessions, each offering audiences the opportunity to engage directly with the space, its soundscape, and material presence.
Dates will be announced soon.
＜Artist’s Statement＞
The body does not break; it folds inward—slowly, deliberately.
Flash thickens—electric, sharp.
Sound hatches in heat, where insects gather and the breath of salty soil lingers.
This installation is a nest of resistance and resonance, where pain becomes porous and listening becomes release.
Heat curls like smoke through the hollow of an ash-filled womb. I work in marrow-time—where decay lingers and silence swells with tender ache. What resists, resists endlessly. Sound is nesting, collapse is humming.
Here, even wounds are forgetting how to sing.
＜Recommender’s Comment＞
Recommenderʼs Comment
― Mina LEE, Professor of GAP
Graduate School of Fine Arts / Global Art Practice, Tokyo University of the Arts
In the face of the desperate friction between human society and the Earth’s ecosystem, how much are we, as humans directly involved, truly confronting this reality? Natalie’s work, which spans disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, and physics, uses artistic methods to convey to our bodies, at a profound level, the friction and pain that the world is experiencing. The body becomes a pathway into the world, encountering pain with fresh joy. It is with anticipation that we welcome Natalie Tsyu’s forthcoming exhibition as a fellow alumnus of GAP (Tokyo University of the Arts Global Art Practice).
＜Artist Biography＞
©NATALIE TSYU
An artist based in Oslo, Norway, and Tokyo, working across a wide range of fields.
Natalie’s work emerges through synthesis—body, electricity, and sound entangled in evolving forms. Kinetic objects become space-instruments, shaped by absence and activated by presence. Resonance drifts with each movement, distance, and touch. Sound escapes fixed composition, becoming a site of tension, modulation, and transformation. Each interaction alters the space, forming a sonic ecology in flux. The sound in Tsyu’s works takes on a visual form and helps to find the very borderline between visual and sound art, the border where the one who can’t see – can hear, and the one who can’t hear – can see.
＜Past Exhibition＞
2025 Guest Artist “Discovering Gunkan” on GUNKAN Higashi-Shinjuku Building Rooftop (Tokyo, Japan)
2025 Sound Performance “A Carrying Landscape” at National Center for the Performing Arts DAVVI (Hammerfest, Norway)
2024-2025 Duo with Masamichi Yoshikawa “Homage” at Former Aoki Pottery Factory (Tokoname, Japan)
2024 Solo Exhibition “The Tiny Seed in Our Pocket” at 3×3 Art Space (Tokyo, Japan)
2024 Group Exhibition “Motivated Bodies” at Komagome SOKO (Tokyo, Japan)
2024 Group Exhibition “88” at JCCAC (Hong Kong)
2023 Guest Artist Sound Performance “Reverb” by Tetsuya Umeda at Brew Gallery (Shiraoi, Japan)
＜Past works＞
©“tiny seed in our pocket” 2024 / Steel, silicone tubes, DC motors
Sound Ingredients: Tobacco roots, rice, rainwater, soil, electromagnetic noise
