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MAM Collection 004: Imagining the Unknown Stories
Mori Art Museum
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Artists
Tomoko Yoneda, Shilpa Gupta, Yee I-Lann
This exhibition will present works by three artists: Tomoko Yoneda, Shilpa Gupta and Yee I-Lann. The artists researched legends and historical events they had not actually experienced in person to create each of the works on exhibit here, using their own imaginations to recreate these events and render them as artworks. Yoneda Tomoko’s photography series “Between Visible and Invisible” takes as its theme the historical relationship between that which can, and cannot, be seen. In one of the images, “Freud’s Glasses - Viewing a text by Jung II” (1998), she employs spectacles actually used by Sigmund Freud to view a text by Carl Jung, Freud’s prodigy that later parted ways. Exactly how Freud felt upon reading this text is left to our imagination. In Shilpa Gupta’s sound installation “Tryst with Destiny - Speech on the granting of Indian Independence, August 14th, 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)” (2007-08), the artist can be heard singing, through a microphone, the speech by the first Indian prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, given on the eve of the country’s independence, to a random tune chosen by the artist. A microphone, usually used for giving speeches, is here turned into a speaker from which Nehru’s somber words pour out as a nostalgic song. “Sulu Stories” (2005) is a photograph series by Yee I-Lann featuring legends and tales from the Sulu Archipelago (now part of the Philippines). The archipelago, adjacent to Malaysia and Indonesia, was independent as Sultanate of Sulu from the 15th to 19th century, yet has now become a base for anti-government forces and terrorist organizations and travel from the outside is restricted. The artist was also unable to enter central Sulu, so she completed the series by superimposing various images onto pictures taken from the surrounding sea based on research.
Schedule | Feb 4 (Sat) 2017-Jun 11 (Sun) 2017 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults: ¥1800, University and High School Students: ¥1200, Junior High School Students & Children Over 4 Years Old: ¥600, Seniors Over 65 Years: ¥1500 | ||||
| Website | http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/mamproject/mamcollection/index.html | ||||
| Venue | Mori Art Museum https://www.mori.art.museum/eng | ||||
| Location | 53F Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from exit 1C at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya line, 6 minute walk from exit 3 at Roppongi Station on the Toei Oedo line; From JR Shibuya Station, take the Toei bus and get off at Roppongi Hills. | ||||
| Phone | 050-5541-8600 (Hello Dial) | ||||
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