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Yuki Okumura "I Me Mine"

Misako & Rosen
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Artists

Yuki Okumura
MISAKO & ROSEN presents the first solo exhibition with artist Yuki Okumura. Okumura, a graduate of the MFA program of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (2004) and frequent participant in international residency programs including, most recently, that of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin as well as the Laboratorie Village Nomade, La Corbiere, Switzerland (both 2007) previously participated in a two-person exhibition with artist Will Rogan at MISAKO & ROSEN (2007). Within Japan, Okumura's work has also been presented at in a program organized bythe Mori Art Museum (2007) and at Tokyo Opera City Gallery (2004) . The artist's films have been presented at institutions internationally including screenings in Denmark, Spain, China, Norway, France, Australia and the United States. In 2000, Okumura was the recipient of the Phillip Morris Art Award and in 2006 a fellowship by the Asian Cultural Council.

Yuki Okumura's work begins with an examination the body; particularly, that of the artist. The resulting observations take various forms ultimately amounting to a flexible form of site-specific installation. Okumura's understanding of “the body” is thoroughly contemporary, “I feel my body is not really a physical existence, but more something like digital data - it is not that my body "exists", but some discrete values "appear" like so on the monitor called the world.”; consequently, a clear distinction between fact and fiction is blurred and Okumura often employs one media to provide a ground for another. This process; however, is ultimately bound to fail as neither physical object; i.e., sculpture nor filmed or photographic representation is any more or less solid - there is always room for slippage and it is from this inherent tension that Okumura's work draws it's initial tragic-comic power.

Ultimately optimistic, Okumura is, however, not content with simple observation and presentation; rather, he is presently engaged in an attempt to move beyond the contemporary - to a point at which concepts such as reality and fiction are no longer relevant and in which fundamental concepts are extended to a point beyond recognition. In the series of photographs, drawings sculptures and film on view at MISAKO & ROSEN, based upon Okumura’s experiences in residency in Taipei, Dublin and Switzerland, base human material takes the form of elegant sculpture, the artist is documented existing in multiple places at the same time and the earth, itself, in a simple alchemical process, serves as a mirror of the artist and ,via extension, everyman.

[Image: "I am Shadow Man (Dandelion)" (2007) Lambda print]

Schedule

Jan 16 (Wed) 2008-Feb 17 (Sun) 2008 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
12:00-18:00
Closes at 17:00 on Sundays.
Closed
Monday, Tuesday, Holidays
FeeFree
Websitehttp://www.misakoandrosen.com/en/exhibitions/08/01/
VenueMisako & Rosen
http://www.misakoandrosen.jp/en/
Location1F, 3-27-6 Kita-Otsuka, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170-0004
Access4 minute walk from Sugamoshinden Station on the Toden Arakawa line, 8 minute walk from the North exit of Otsuka Station on the JR Yamanote line.
Phone03-6276-1452
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