Nayu Kakeya
Artist
After a stint working at a city bank, she studied at Tokyo University of the Arts in the Department of Intermedia Art. In 2016 she entered the VR/AR game industry as a designer at meleap Inc. In 2018, her work “2.5 dimensional tactile sense” hailed the beginning of her work connecting art and small-scale town factories, and in 2019 she was a finalist in Tokyo Startup Gateway. In 2021 she took part in the planning of the Kawaguchi Machikoba Art Festival, and in 2022 was involved in the launch of Yogi Atelier Co., Ltd., where she works on material design for luxury brand shops and hotels both in Japan and overseas. She currently employs an original technique combining 3D printing and gold leaf in her creation under the theme “the means to touch love.”