Exhibition statement

2 friends

2 worlds

2+gether

Having discovered each other through their love for fabric, threads and patterns, this is the 4th time Caroline and Barbara have exhibited together since 2021. With their backgrounds in fashion design and architecture, they collect the beauty in everyday life and their surroundings, choosing different mediums to express their ideas. 

In this exhibition they are displaying works that have been created over the past 2 years, including works exhibited in the Tokyo Biennale 2023.

Artist bio

Barbara KUHN

Barbara’s interests lie in the outdoors. A former vivid free and alpine climber she nowadays spends her free time exploring Japan by bicycle. 

https://www.instagram.com/wander_road

Her work focuses on nature and natural surroundings, finding the unseen in every day scenes. She takes inspiration from her travels in Japan, the landscapes, the surroundings, the untold story threads.

She also recently went back to her roots in design and started an upcycling sewing project. 

www.instagram.com/tokyo.threads

Caroline SATO

Caroline Sato is an Australian artist and maker based in Ebina, Japan. With a background in fashion design, her work centres around lived experience and tactile elements; themes of people and values, and pattern and adornment. She is particularly interested in forms of creation that anyone can produce that bring hope and beauty into everyday life + the experience of consumption. See more of her work at https://www.carolinesato.com or follow her on https://www.instagram.com/car0sat0