Emmanuelle Moureaux

Eyes on Talents member, Emmanuelle Moureaux, is a French architect living in Tokyo since 1996, where she established, emmanuelle moureaux architecture + design, in 2003. Inspired by the layers and colors of Tokyo, and the Japanese traditional spatial elements, she has created the concept of "shikiri", which literally means "dividing (creating) space with colors". Emmanuelle Moureaux uses colors as a medium to compose space, her wish is to give emotion through her creations, which range from art, design to architecture. For her installation Universe of Words she reimagined the Japanese tradition of Tanabata day, where Japanese people write their hopes and dreams on colored pieces of paper and hang them on a bamboo branch in hopes that their wishes will come true.