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Yuki Shimizu
PGI is pleased to present Half Dreaming Glass, the gallery’s second exhibition of photographic works by Yuki Shimizu.
The accomplished artist and writer Yuki Shimizu creates fantastical worlds using photography and the written word. Her photographic work has been distinguished with awards such as the 5th 1_Wall Award in 2011 and the Miki Jun Award in 2016. As a writer, Shimizu received the R-18 Shinchosha Literary Award in 2018 for her book "Koko wa yoru no mizu no hotori" (Shueisha, 2019). She has held numerous exhibitions of her works, including "Empty Park" (PGI, 2019), "Mare Cognitum" (Chiba City Museum of Art, 2021), "Hundred years glass" (Chiba Citizen’s Gallery Inage, 2021), and "Cold Sleep" at the Chiba City Festival of Arts (Chiba, 2021). Her most recent publication is the "Hanazakari no isu" short-story collection (Shueisha, 2022).
Since her debut in 2012, Yuki Shimizu has pursued the act of photographing and turning landscapes into artworks. Her work weaves intricate fiction built on research into local histories and folklore using photography and text. She continues to use her camera to confront incomplete landscapes whose totality withdraws from access, attempting to photograph fleeting phantoms that appear only for moments. Although she has stated that her practice always leaves her feeling continually left behind in time, the dilemma of time’s ceaseless passage serves as a daydream-like inspiration for her texts, which bind the many details within her photographs together.
Shimizu developed the Half Dreaming Glass series following her 2021 exhibition "Hundred year glass" at the Former Kamiya Denbee Inage Villa in Chiba’s Inage district, which examined glass that was witness to the changes of the local shoreline over the decades.
"Half Dreaming Glass" expands on this idea, with Shimizu visually interrogating glass that witnessed the stories and histories of nearby landscapes unfold. From the Inubosaki Lighthouse in Chiba to the historic Lake Biwa Canal, the artificial Port Island in Kobe, or seawalls in the Tohoku region, the glass in Shimizu’s photographs observed the modernization of their local sceneries, whether through major economic changes or tremendous damage from natural disasters.
The PGI exhibition of "Half Dreaming Glass" features around twenty chromogenic prints made by the artist using aged and eroded negatives using seawater, sand, and organic matter. Through these processes, scratches, dust, sand grains, and mold are made to appear within Shimizu’s original images, and the story of the glass itself becomes visible in the pictures.
The accomplished artist and writer Yuki Shimizu creates fantastical worlds using photography and the written word. Her photographic work has been distinguished with awards such as the 5th 1_Wall Award in 2011 and the Miki Jun Award in 2016. As a writer, Shimizu received the R-18 Shinchosha Literary Award in 2018 for her book "Koko wa yoru no mizu no hotori" (Shueisha, 2019). She has held numerous exhibitions of her works, including "Empty Park" (PGI, 2019), "Mare Cognitum" (Chiba City Museum of Art, 2021), "Hundred years glass" (Chiba Citizen’s Gallery Inage, 2021), and "Cold Sleep" at the Chiba City Festival of Arts (Chiba, 2021). Her most recent publication is the "Hanazakari no isu" short-story collection (Shueisha, 2022).
Since her debut in 2012, Yuki Shimizu has pursued the act of photographing and turning landscapes into artworks. Her work weaves intricate fiction built on research into local histories and folklore using photography and text. She continues to use her camera to confront incomplete landscapes whose totality withdraws from access, attempting to photograph fleeting phantoms that appear only for moments. Although she has stated that her practice always leaves her feeling continually left behind in time, the dilemma of time’s ceaseless passage serves as a daydream-like inspiration for her texts, which bind the many details within her photographs together.
Shimizu developed the Half Dreaming Glass series following her 2021 exhibition "Hundred year glass" at the Former Kamiya Denbee Inage Villa in Chiba’s Inage district, which examined glass that was witness to the changes of the local shoreline over the decades.
"Half Dreaming Glass" expands on this idea, with Shimizu visually interrogating glass that witnessed the stories and histories of nearby landscapes unfold. From the Inubosaki Lighthouse in Chiba to the historic Lake Biwa Canal, the artificial Port Island in Kobe, or seawalls in the Tohoku region, the glass in Shimizu’s photographs observed the modernization of their local sceneries, whether through major economic changes or tremendous damage from natural disasters.
The PGI exhibition of "Half Dreaming Glass" features around twenty chromogenic prints made by the artist using aged and eroded negatives using seawater, sand, and organic matter. Through these processes, scratches, dust, sand grains, and mold are made to appear within Shimizu’s original images, and the story of the glass itself becomes visible in the pictures.
Schedule | Aug 22 (Mon) 2022-Oct 5 (Wed) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.pgi.ac/en/exhibitions/6737/ | ||||
| Venue | PGI http://www.pgi.ac/index.php?lang=en | ||||
| Location | 3F TKB Bldg., 2-3-4 Higashi-azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0044 | ||||
| Access | 4 minute walk from the Nakanohashi exit of Akabanebashi Station on the Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 6 at Azabu-juban Station on the Namboku or Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 1 at Kamiyacho Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5114-7935 | ||||
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