Yuzuru Maeda has been staying in Singapore since she joined LaSalle College of Arts, Singapore in 2009 for Bachelor of the Arts program in music composition. Since graduation, the artist has embarked on performing music and improvisation and making video, installation and performance art with Zentai. She uses Zentai, the Japanese sub-culture to investigate identity, individuality and collective energy in the environment. She also organizes Zentai exhibition, Zentai walk, Zentai performance as an organizer of the Zentai Art Festival.

She has been part of a number of group exhibitions such as “Invisible whole” in the The Substation Gallery of Singapore, “Dream: Borderland and other territories” in the Goodman Art Gallery of Singapore and has been performing for numerous events such as Jaipur Art Summit in Jaipur, India, Artregems International Performance Art Festival at Tainan and Salmo Zentai, @At Hall at Oita of Japan. She has participated in a number of residency programs as well.

 Work Concept:

The world is getting more and more materialistic. People say the world will not last long if we continue to consume the way we do now.

But I think we don’t need to look for a new invention that can save the world. I believe the key for preserving the world is to have fewer desires or identities.  If we could live simply, and require less materially, the world could sustain its cycle.

When I see a group of people wearing Zentai, I can identify female or male but nothing more. And maybe this is enough.

We could live just as male or female without playing so many roles in society, like nationality, age, job, education, family and so on.

I think Zentai can remind us that it is good to be ourselves, the self that exists beyond identities.

A group of Zentai people look like they are merging into one another as if they are part of the same energy.