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Wataru Yamakami “World of the world ‒ Under Constellation 2021”
Yu Harada
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Wataru Yamakami
Born in 1981, Wataru Yamagami has wandered the alleys of Tokyo with a spray can inspired by street art, traveled to South America, India, and Asia inspired by religion or shamanism, and wandered the forests while living deep in the mountains of Nagano interested in slime mold. At first glance, it may seem as if he is wandering aimlessly, but Yamagami has connected these boundaries by moving around based on his relationship with the objects he is interested in.
In this exhibition, Yamagami will present works created in Indonesia, where she stayed and traveled as part of the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Overseas Study Program for Emerging Artists in 2008, based on the theme of the sea and drifting objects that wash up there.
Yamagami believes that although Indonesia and Japan are closed off from the world by the sea, they are also open to each other, and that these borders are very ambiguous, and that the existence that connects them is drifting objects. Drifting objects are the difference between the realm of knowledge and the realm of things, and they are an important metaphor that mediates the intersection of the living and the dead, this world and the other shore, and the conscious and the unconscious. Assuming that there is a visible world and an invisible world, how do we perceive and connect them?
In this exhibition, Yamagami will present works created in Indonesia, where she stayed and traveled as part of the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Overseas Study Program for Emerging Artists in 2008, based on the theme of the sea and drifting objects that wash up there.
Yamagami believes that although Indonesia and Japan are closed off from the world by the sea, they are also open to each other, and that these borders are very ambiguous, and that the existence that connects them is drifting objects. Drifting objects are the difference between the realm of knowledge and the realm of things, and they are an important metaphor that mediates the intersection of the living and the dead, this world and the other shore, and the conscious and the unconscious. Assuming that there is a visible world and an invisible world, how do we perceive and connect them?
Schedule | Jul 1 (Thu) 2021-Jul 25 (Sun) 2021 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Yu Harada https://www.yuharada.com/en  | ||||
| Location | 10-10 Sumiyoshicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0065 | ||||
| Access | 4 minute walk from exit A2 at Akebonobashi Station on the Toei Shinjuku line, 12 minute walk from the Kawada exit of Wakamatsu-kawada Station on the Toei Oedo line. | ||||
| Phone | 090-6001-1880 | ||||
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