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[Image: ©Yurie Nagashima/ Maho Kubota Gallery (2015)]

Yurie Nagashima “About Home”

Maho Kubota Gallery
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Artists

Yurie Nagashima
Situated in the heart of Aoyama and Harajuku, between the upscale Gaien-nishi Dori and the quiet historical Seizoroi Zaka streets, Maho Kubota Gallery opens with a solo show by Japanese artist Yurie Nagashima. Viewed as the pioneer of the Girly Photo movement, which took off in the latter half of the 1990s, Nagashima has grappled with the question of her identity, both within the social group and particularly as a woman, since her debut in 1993, creating works relating to her relationships with others by directing her camera at herself and those close to her.

Nagashima’s latest show, “About Home,” takes the form of an installation composed of a tent created with her mother and groups of photographs of varying sizes. The tent is made of an assortment of materials such as clothes and housekeeping fabrics from the Nagashima home, while the photographs are a mixture of new images taken by the artist during the making of the tent and others shot before then in Japan and the U.S. There are no fixed boundaries to be drawn between the photographs and the tent, as they come together as one within the exhibition space.

One of the concepts behind the installation is the legacy of a box of flower photographs by the artist’s grandmother, also a great inspiration when the artist compiled her 2010 collection, “Swiss” (Akaaka Art Publishing). Although her grandmother had no obvious intention to publish her photographs, in them Nagashima saw the crystallization of key themes such as the passion of the unrecognized creator toward her work and the difficulties women faced in pursuing creative careers.

Schedule

Mar 16 (Wed) 2016-Apr 23 (Sat) 2016 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
12:00-19:00
Closed
Monday, Sunday, Holidays
FeeFree
VenueMaho Kubota Gallery
http://www.mahokubota.com/en/
Location1F, 2-4-7 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001
Access6 minute walk from exit 2 at Gaienmae Station on the Ginza line, 11 minute walk from exit A2 at Omotesando Station on the Ginza, Hanzomon and Chiyoda lines.
Phone03-6434-7716
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