Kanako Enokida (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist born in Japan and currently based in Meanjin. Working across installation, papermaking, and performance, her practice brings together fibre and the body to create fragile yet intimate encounters for viewers. Her work is driven by an ongoing exploration of inter-cultural identity and the body as a site of liminality - a vessel of collective memory.

Enokida draws inspiration from her lived experiences of living across cultures, surviving a chronic medical condition, and confronting imbalanced power structures within narratives imposed on international bodies. Through these personal histories, her practice has become a platform to question simplified narratives around identity, the body, and difference, while examining the interconnectedness between people, place, and memory.

Photo Credit: Louis Slim