Together, Breathing
This collaborative installation brings together Shinkokyu, a breathing device by Kensho Miyoshi, and Breathing Rests, newly created bases by Sho Ota, to render breath visible through light, sound, and form. Drawing on the Buteyko breathing method, Shinkokyu presents varied rhythms of calm, focus, and depth, expressed through motion, shifts in light temperature, music composed by Ryo Konishi, and form design by Yoshiki Matsuyama. The device evokes a living presence, gently guiding audiences into new states of awareness. In dialogue with this, Ota’s Breathing Rests transform the intangible qualities of breath into sculptural form, employing variations of material, colour, and silhouette. Exhibited together, the two works unfold as a landscape—a composition of breathing—shaping the space through their interplay. The installation also coincides with the official release of Shinkokyu this winter, extending beyond concept to embodiment and practice.
Ota Miyoshi
Kensho Miyoshi
Designer and design researcher.
Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1990. Graduated from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Tokyo and completed the master’s program at the same institution. Received a PhD from the Royal College of Art, UK, and was awarded the Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize (Anhalt University, Germany). Author of Designing Motion Itself (BNN) and Designing Objects in Motion: Exploring Kinaesthetic Empathy (Birkhäuser, Switzerland). Certified Buteyko Breathing Method Instructor. Currently Assistant Professor at the Faculty of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University. Co-founder of POETIC CURIOSITY and founder of Shinkokyu Inc.
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Sho Ota
Sho was born in Chiba Prefecture in 1984. After graduating from the Department of Design, Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University, he joined a furniture manufacturer. In 2018, he completed a Master’s program in Contextual Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven and established Studio Sho Ota in the same year. He is based in the Netherlands and has exhibited his work in galleries across Europe and the U.S. In 2021, he held his first solo exhibition in Paris. He is driven to create works through small-scale production that would be impossible to achieve through mass production.
- Kensho Miyoshi：
- Winner of the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award (Anhalt University)
- Certified Super Creator under the IPA Unexplored Human Resources Discovery and Development Program
- Grand Prize Winner, GUGEN 202