Niwa

In Niwa, the traditional Japanese art of Ikebana is recontextualized within an unexpected setting — a public restroom urinal. The act of arranging seasonal blossoms in this site-specific space transforms a utilitarian, gendered fixture into a living sculpture, challenging perceptions of purity, waste, and beauty. Through this intimate yet provocative gesture, the work explores bodily presence, spatial politics, and the delicate tension between nature and human-made environments.

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As the earliest experiment in the fleshscape series, Niwa marked the first attempt to situate the human body within contested, non-neutral environments. It is a beginning point from which the series would expand into more complex, hybrid terrains of corporeality, architecture, and spatial politics.