Artist statement:
I'm interested in sociological issues that deal with disguise, uniformity and identity. Observing how things appear to be in a situation while improvising scenes and creating possibilities, I look into what’s behind the façade. My recent works relate to events in history. I’m enticed by the relationship between memory and imagination, specifically how an episodic memory echoes in the environment of a location over time, reflects and coexists simultaneously in the present atmosphere. I investigate imprints in connection to time, place and story, and create alternative visions.

Mayumi Nakazaki (JP/NL) studied audio visual art at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Her graduation film received the Rene Coelho Prize from the Netherlands Institute for Media Art in 1999. During 2000-2001, she participated at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Her other artist in residencies include: Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi, India (2004), Location One in New York (2005-2006), Berlinale Talent Campus Berlin (2007), Bunkacho; Japanese overseas research study program for artists in New York (2008-2009), Binger Film Lab Amsterdam (2013-2014), and Studio Das Weisse Haus Vienna (2014). Over the years, she has received various grants from Mondriaan Fonds NL, Netherlands Film Fonds, Amsterdam Fund for Art, Japan Foundation, Nomura Cultural Foundation Japan, amongst others.

Mayumi’s artistic practice centers around moving image. Her films, installations have been screened and exhibited internationally such as Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Jamaica Arts Center New York, Kunstpavillion Zagreb, IDFA International documentary film festival Amsterdam, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Festival Film Dokumenter Yogyakarta Indonesia, International short film festival Oberhausen Germany. ‘Chapter 2 - field trip’ (2011) is distributed by Filmbank EYE film Institute Netherlands. ‘In My Drawer’ (2020) received Best Experimental Film Award from Asian Moving Images, Art house cinema and experimental film festival in Madrid, Spain in 2021.

She also works for collaborative projects regularly, together with other artists, actors, researchers, and script writers.