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Fiona Tan "'Rise and Fall' and New Works"
Wako Works of Art
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Fiona Tan
Fiona Tan exhibition
extended through Saturday, October 22.
Rise and Fall : 1PM-6PM
Rise and Fall is a two-channel video installation using vertical format screens. With juxtaposed images of gentle streams and rapid gushes of water, the work unravels to depict a portrait of a woman living in isolation, and caught in the memories of her past. The subtly skewed sense of time and location of the moving images reveal the frailty of memory, and the human inclination to depend on those images. Brendan's Isle is an audio piece, told by Tan herself, of a story of a 6th century Irish monk named Brendan who travels in search of an elusive paradise-like island. Hans and Helge, the newest work in this exhibition, is a video filmed on the Swedish island of Gotland. This film is a small, intimate portrait, which quietly observes islanders going about their daily lives.
Born in Pekan Baru, Indonesia in 1966 and raised in Australia, Fiona Tan was educated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Through the use of the film and photographic medium, Tan’s works reflect on the human conditions in relation to time and memory, history and fiction, location and dislocation. Her works have been shown in numerous group exhibitions, such as the 49th Venice Biennale (2001), the first Yokohama Triennale (2001), Documenta 11 (2002). In 2009, Tan was selected to represent the Dutch Pavilion at Venice Biennale; the following year, she was commissioned by the Fukutake Naoshima Foundation to create a work for the Venice Architectural Biennale that captures the changes taking place on the island of Inujima in the Seto Inland Sea with the arrival of the new Kazuyo Sejima pavilions. Her latest solo exhibition, Rise and Fall, traveled from Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington DC and Galerie de l'UQAM in Montreal. She is currently based in the Netherlands.
The fourth installment of the gallery's Text book series, featuring essays on works by Fiona Tan, will be published in conjunction with this exhibition. (Available in Japanese only)
extended through Saturday, October 22.
Rise and Fall : 1PM-6PM
Rise and Fall is a two-channel video installation using vertical format screens. With juxtaposed images of gentle streams and rapid gushes of water, the work unravels to depict a portrait of a woman living in isolation, and caught in the memories of her past. The subtly skewed sense of time and location of the moving images reveal the frailty of memory, and the human inclination to depend on those images. Brendan's Isle is an audio piece, told by Tan herself, of a story of a 6th century Irish monk named Brendan who travels in search of an elusive paradise-like island. Hans and Helge, the newest work in this exhibition, is a video filmed on the Swedish island of Gotland. This film is a small, intimate portrait, which quietly observes islanders going about their daily lives.
Born in Pekan Baru, Indonesia in 1966 and raised in Australia, Fiona Tan was educated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Through the use of the film and photographic medium, Tan’s works reflect on the human conditions in relation to time and memory, history and fiction, location and dislocation. Her works have been shown in numerous group exhibitions, such as the 49th Venice Biennale (2001), the first Yokohama Triennale (2001), Documenta 11 (2002). In 2009, Tan was selected to represent the Dutch Pavilion at Venice Biennale; the following year, she was commissioned by the Fukutake Naoshima Foundation to create a work for the Venice Architectural Biennale that captures the changes taking place on the island of Inujima in the Seto Inland Sea with the arrival of the new Kazuyo Sejima pavilions. Her latest solo exhibition, Rise and Fall, traveled from Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington DC and Galerie de l'UQAM in Montreal. She is currently based in the Netherlands.
The fourth installment of the gallery's Text book series, featuring essays on works by Fiona Tan, will be published in conjunction with this exhibition. (Available in Japanese only)
Schedule | Sep 10 (Sat) 2011-Oct 22 (Sat) 2011 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Sep 10 (Sat) 2011 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||||
| Website | http://www.wako-art.jp/exhibitions/data/2011/riseandfall_and_newworks/index_en.php | ||||||
| Venue | Wako Works of Art | ||||||
| Location | 3F Piramide Bldg., 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from exit 1a or 1b at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya or Toei Oedo line. | ||||||
| Phone | 03-6447-1820 | ||||||
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