Kelli Maeshiro Japannese, b. 1989
love it well and it will stay, 2025
mixed media
30 x 20 x 11 cm
'Kelli Maeshiro’s work traces the soft boundaries between memory, longing, and transformation. In love it well and it will stay, Maeshiro assembles iridescent, handmade elements into an intimate sculptural form...
"Kelli Maeshiro’s work traces the soft boundaries between memory, longing, and transformation. In love it well and it will stay, Maeshiro assembles iridescent, handmade elements into an intimate sculptural form that glows with quiet resilience. Beads, translucent petals, and wire-like tendrils evoke a kind of suspended bloom—fragile yet held together by care and attention.
Born in Japan and raised in an Okinawan-American household, Maeshiro's practice explores diasporic memory, ancestral distance, and the in-between spaces of cultural belonging. Her use of light, texture, and gentle symmetry invites a meditative attention to the overlooked—objects that shimmer with what has been remembered, repaired, or reimagined.
She was the winner of the 2015 Outstanding Art Prize (Taipei National University) and an artist in residence at the Open and Fun Art Village Residency, Shanghai, China. Solo exhibitions include: Somewhere Down The River (2018), Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; “Please Give Me a Shape in One Piece.” thought spoke (2016), Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and A Period of Time (2013), Soul Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan."
Born in Japan and raised in an Okinawan-American household, Maeshiro's practice explores diasporic memory, ancestral distance, and the in-between spaces of cultural belonging. Her use of light, texture, and gentle symmetry invites a meditative attention to the overlooked—objects that shimmer with what has been remembered, repaired, or reimagined.
She was the winner of the 2015 Outstanding Art Prize (Taipei National University) and an artist in residence at the Open and Fun Art Village Residency, Shanghai, China. Solo exhibitions include: Somewhere Down The River (2018), Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; “Please Give Me a Shape in One Piece.” thought spoke (2016), Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and A Period of Time (2013), Soul Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan."
