Junki Noda

Based in Tokyo

Holding a needle and sewing—

from this quiet act of repetition, his works emerge.

His practice began with CHNEIDER, a fashion label dedicated to one-of-a-kind garments

of his own design, and has since expanded into sculpture and painting. 

At the foundation of this evolving body of work lies a physical memory,

a sustained engagement with materials through the movements of the hand.

Working with remnants of leather, felt, organdy ribbons, thread, and other fashion fabrics

that have accompanied his creative life from the beginning, 

he explores universal themes such as life and death, the passage of time, and disappearance.

In recent years, he has turned his attention to soap as a material. 

Gradually wearing itself away while cleansing the human body, 

soap embodies an inevitable process of vanishing. 

By incorporating this fragile substance into his works, he seeks to preserve within them

the very nature of transience.

His practice is an attempt to embrace the mutable while, at times, resisting its disappearance. 

Through acts of stitching, binding, and reassembling, 

he creates traces that are at once fragile and enduring.