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Kabo "Тайна третьей планеты (The Secret of the Third Planet)"
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Block House exhibition is hosting the second solo exhibition by the artist/photographer Kabo.
Kabo has been active as a commercial photographer in Japan since the 1990s. In the 2000s, she was a member of Eric Kot's Double X Workshop Production in Hong Kong, where she worked between Hong Kong and Japan.
For this exhibition, which runs from August to October 2023, she stayed in Narva, the easternmost city in Estonia, and will present photographs taken locally and installation works using furniture.
Estonia, an EU member state, has strong anti-Russian sentiment due to its historical background, and Narva, in particular, with 95 percent of its population being of Russian descent, is a city that vividly reflects the historical and ethnic issues Estonia faces, even in recent years.
Drawing from her awareness of the skewed relationship between large and small nations, which she experienced in Hong Kong, Kabo immersed herself in the culture and daily life of Estonia, engaging in discussions with people from the Nordic countries about the current state of affairs. She took photographs while contemplating the complex relationships between different perspectives and ideologies.
Behind the seemingly ordinary everyday scenes captured in her photographs lies the tragic history of Eastern Europe or the grim reality of current social conditions. However, what distinguishes Kabo's photography is that, despite being research-based, it does not symbolically or diagrammatically represent her problem definition, unlike journalistic photography.
Incorporating a sense of unease akin to that experienced during times of war or disaster gradually creeping into everyday life, her snapshots portray something "transparent yet undeniably present." Kabo's "gaze at the times" can serve as a clue for those who are tossed between unchanging ordinary life and imminent violence from the forefront of two different realities.
Kabo has been active as a commercial photographer in Japan since the 1990s. In the 2000s, she was a member of Eric Kot's Double X Workshop Production in Hong Kong, where she worked between Hong Kong and Japan.
For this exhibition, which runs from August to October 2023, she stayed in Narva, the easternmost city in Estonia, and will present photographs taken locally and installation works using furniture.
Estonia, an EU member state, has strong anti-Russian sentiment due to its historical background, and Narva, in particular, with 95 percent of its population being of Russian descent, is a city that vividly reflects the historical and ethnic issues Estonia faces, even in recent years.
Drawing from her awareness of the skewed relationship between large and small nations, which she experienced in Hong Kong, Kabo immersed herself in the culture and daily life of Estonia, engaging in discussions with people from the Nordic countries about the current state of affairs. She took photographs while contemplating the complex relationships between different perspectives and ideologies.
Behind the seemingly ordinary everyday scenes captured in her photographs lies the tragic history of Eastern Europe or the grim reality of current social conditions. However, what distinguishes Kabo's photography is that, despite being research-based, it does not symbolically or diagrammatically represent her problem definition, unlike journalistic photography.
Incorporating a sense of unease akin to that experienced during times of war or disaster gradually creeping into everyday life, her snapshots portray something "transparent yet undeniably present." Kabo's "gaze at the times" can serve as a clue for those who are tossed between unchanging ordinary life and imminent violence from the forefront of two different realities.
Schedule | Mar 2 (Sat) 2024-Mar 17 (Sun) 2024 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://blockhouse.jp/index.php?itemid=317 | ||||
| Venue | Block House http://blockhouse.jp/ | ||||
| Location | 6-12-9 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from exit 7 at Meiji-jingumae Station on the Chiyoda and Fukutoshin lines, 10 minute walk from the East exit of Harajuku Station on the JR Yamanote line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6318-2003 | ||||
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