Saeri Kiritani

Based between Japan, Europe, and the US, I explore how identity—especially the female body—moves across borders, cultures, and media. My rice self-portraits—first carved in New York—use thousands of grains as poetic symbols of care, nourishment, and the invisibility of women’s repetitive labor. I extend this inquiry through performance video, sculpture, and digital media, examining cultural misrecognition and the limits of translation—between languages, between genders, and between humans and machines. My work asks: what forms of memory, resistance, or belonging survive when identity is mediated through distance, technology, or history?