Sonimi Osawa | Beyond the Accumulation of Small Records—Each Back Number (4)
Hachinohe Museum of Art curator Sonimi Osawa reflects on artscape's back numbers, tracing her career and the evolution of the regional art scene.Summary
This is the fourth installment of the series "Each Back Number" celebrating the 30th anniversary of artscape, featuring Sonimi Osawa, a curator at the Hachinohe Museum of Art. Osawa recounts how she diligently followed artscape, especially Mori Tsukasa's blog "artscape blog: MORI channel," during her student days aspiring to be a curator, viewing it both for work updates and as an object of admiration. After briefly touching upon the major earthquake that hit Hachinohe at the end of 2025 and the museum's subsequent response, she details how she uses artscape's exhibition search function for her "museum-visiting trips" across the country, explaining her preferred style of viewing a region's "artscape" multi-dimensionally, using a trip to Mito as an example. She notes that Mori's blog serves as a record of the significant transformation of the art scene in Aomori during the mid-2000s (including the opening of the Aomori Museum of Art). Osawa then discusses the art projects she managed in Hachinohe and the exhibition "Utsukushii HUG!" at the Hachinohe Museum of Art where Mori served as a guest curator, expressing her joy at now contributing to artscape as a writer, preserving records of the local scene, which she believes will become important historical evidence in the future.
(Source：artscape)