Hillu Liebelt’s love of Japan has taken her three times to the Far East, where her first touring exhibition DELICATE MATTERS (2008/09) started at »HISHIO – Centre for Cultural Exchange« in Katsuyama / Okayama Prefecture. The second touring exhibition, STILL MOMENTS (2012/13), was launched in two adjacent galleries in Kyoto, »ArtLife Mitsuhashi« and »Gallery Yuragi«.

Since 2007 silk cocoons seem to play an important part and appear in installations as well as in assembled objects.

For Hillu, the installation »Leaving«, created for Gallery Yuragi in 2012 in response to the the previous year’s earthquake and tsunami, in which 16 000 people lost their lives, is of particular importance. The silk cocoon becomes a symbol for death, rebirth and metamorphosis.