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APK PUBLIC Vol.2

Embracing What Lives (A Study of TODA CORPORATION’s History)

2026
Jacquard weaving (EPOTEX, designed by Aiko Tezuka)
H.500 x W.295 cm each (diptych)
Commissioned by TODA CORPORATION
Textile production and sponsorship by KAWASHIMA SELKON TEXTILES CO., LTD.

The Collection Exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art

A Study of Necessity (Satsuma-Buttons and Self-Orientalism) – 01
2019
Jacquard weaving designed by the artist, basket woven out of threads unraveled from the textile
H.360 x W.730 x D.360 cm (installation size)

Textile development and production: TextielMuseum | TextielLab, Tilburg, the Netherlands
Product developer: Judith Peskens (TextielMuseum | TextielLab)
Production support: KCI (The Kyoto Costume Institute), Japan
Long-term loan to the Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan, from a private collection

TextielMuseum ”Man <3 Machine - 25 Years of TextielLab“

Tezuka’s textile work, Certainty / Entropy (Japan 6), is currently on view in the exhibition. This work was created in 2014 through a collaboration with the museum’s TextielLab.

The textile incorporates designs by the artist herself, weaving together the Stand cover (kyokechi-dyed fabric) preserved in the Shōsōin Repository from the 8th century, and contemporary symbol marks.

The State Guest House at the “Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan” in Yumeshima-Osaka

Aiko’s two large installations, Re-Weaving the Era (A Study of Courage and Curiosity) and The State Guest Houses (Weaving in Progress, Meiji to Reiwa) are exhibited in the State Guest House at the “Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan” in Yumeshima-Osaka. Kawashima Selkon Textiles Co., Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) donated the significant textile works designed by Aiko Tezuka to the State Guest House. These works are not open to the public. Still, the production materials and records of the production process are exhibited at the Kawashima Textile Museum in Kyoto.