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LILICO ASO‐麻生りり子
Noh mask artist, contemporary artist, face researcher, and scriptwriter based in Japan.
Lilico Aso works at the intersection of craft, art, and inquiry — using the face as both medium and question.
Trained within a 600-year tradition of Noh mask carving, she extends that practice into contemporary installation and research, asking what the face holds that language cannot reach.
Her work moves across disciplines — cognitive science, linguistics, anthropology, and performance — not to explain the face, but to keep it open as a question.
【Artisans】
As featured on CNN — Artisans (2024)
"The mask-makers changing the face of Noh, one of the world's oldest surviving performing arts."
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