Kyunchome Honma Eri (b. 1987, Yokohama, Japan) and Nabuchi (b. 1984, Mito, Japan), is a Japanese artist duo whose practice explores fundamental questions of existence, care, and coexistence in a fragile world. Working primarily with video, performance, installation, and participatory actions, they create poetic and often disarming works that resist clear narratives. Their projects frequently emerge from lived encounters with specific places and communities, emphasizing bodily experience, repetition, and simple gestures such as breathing, calling out, or touching the ground. Through these acts, Kyunchome seeks what they describe as a “core reality,” a state beneath social systems and language where human beings reconnect with one another and with nonhuman life. Humor, vulnerability, and absurdity function as key strategies, allowing difficult subjects to be approached without didacticism. Their work challenges anthropocentric perspectives by proposing relationships based on circulation, empathy, and mutual dependence rather than control.
Recurring themes include the aftermath of natural disasters, environmental precarity, collective memory, and the possibility of love as a political and ethical force. Kyunchome often situates their works in liminal or damaged landscapes, such as coastal regions or post-disaster sites, where participants are invited to confront uncertainty together. Gender, social division, and isolation are addressed indirectly, through shared actions that emphasize togetherness and embodied presence. Rather than producing fixed objects, the duo prioritizes processes and experiences, treating art as a living practice that unfolds through time, collaboration, and attention to the present moment.
Kyunchome has exhibited extensively in Japan and abroad. Major presentations include participation in Aichi Triennale 2019 and Mori Art Museum’s Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going. Their work has been shown at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and in solo exhibitions in Tokyo, Seoul, and regional Japanese art centers. Internationally, they have presented projects at institutions and festivals across Asia and Europe, situating their practice within global conversations on ecology, community, and contemporary performance-based art.