Shiga Lieko: Nanumokanumo, Anyting and Everything
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Lieko Shiga
We are pleased to present NANUMOKANUMO, Anything and Everything, a solo exhibition by Miyagi (one of the northeast areas of Japan)-based artist Shiga Lieko, internationally recognized for her photographic and video works, which explore light and colour through her bodily sensation and distinctly theatrical sensibility.
Through her photographic work like “Gotai-tochi”, full prostration that evokes the act of throwing one’s whole body to the ground in prayer, she makes herself a point of disappearance. In doing so, she seeks to lay bare the reality of revitalization of humanity across society and nature.
At such a moment, imagine herself as a hollow illuminated by the flickering like “causal alternating light (by Miyazawa Kenji)”. Drawing toward herself what resonates in her innermost depths, she lives by giving embodied expression to the place called “Tohoku”, the northeast region of Japan.
The title of this exhibition is named from a dialect expressed mainly along Sanriku, the Pacific coast of Tohoku. It can mean “We’re done for!”, “a sigh from the depths of the sea” and more. Its meaning unfolds differently depending on the speaker and the circumstances in which it is used. This woven from this curious and richly layered word is the largest-ever exhibition for her. Bringing together both new and earlier photographs, videos, text works and installations, it draws on her deep engagement with the lands and histories of Miyagi, Fukushima, Yamagata, Akita, Iwate and Aomori; the many voices to which she has listened; and the landscapes she has encountered.
In today’s world, where the memory of an unprecedented disaster is fading and global social divisions are deepening. Under such world, “Tohoku” has long been shaped by narratives imposed from the centre, energy strategies, and geopolitical forces. It is our deepest hope that this exhibition gazed with various intersectionality by her will become a field of images through which each of us may encounter anew the real world, with all its nested complexities; resonate with one another in our existence; and toughen one another’s lives up.
Through her photographic work like “Gotai-tochi”, full prostration that evokes the act of throwing one’s whole body to the ground in prayer, she makes herself a point of disappearance. In doing so, she seeks to lay bare the reality of revitalization of humanity across society and nature.
At such a moment, imagine herself as a hollow illuminated by the flickering like “causal alternating light (by Miyazawa Kenji)”. Drawing toward herself what resonates in her innermost depths, she lives by giving embodied expression to the place called “Tohoku”, the northeast region of Japan.
The title of this exhibition is named from a dialect expressed mainly along Sanriku, the Pacific coast of Tohoku. It can mean “We’re done for!”, “a sigh from the depths of the sea” and more. Its meaning unfolds differently depending on the speaker and the circumstances in which it is used. This woven from this curious and richly layered word is the largest-ever exhibition for her. Bringing together both new and earlier photographs, videos, text works and installations, it draws on her deep engagement with the lands and histories of Miyagi, Fukushima, Yamagata, Akita, Iwate and Aomori; the many voices to which she has listened; and the landscapes she has encountered.
In today’s world, where the memory of an unprecedented disaster is fading and global social divisions are deepening. Under such world, “Tohoku” has long been shaped by narratives imposed from the centre, energy strategies, and geopolitical forces. It is our deepest hope that this exhibition gazed with various intersectionality by her will become a field of images through which each of us may encounter anew the real world, with all its nested complexities; resonate with one another in our existence; and toughen one another’s lives up.
Schedule | Oct 31 (Sat) 2026-Mar 14 (Sun) 2027 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥1700; University Students ¥1200; High School Students and Under, Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion free. | ||||
| Website | https://www.aomori-museum.jp/en/schedule/18042/ | ||||
| Venue | Aomori Museum of Art https://www.aomori-museum.jp/en/ | ||||
| Address | 185 Chikano, Yasuta, Aomori-shi, Aomori 038-0021 | ||||
| Access | From the South exit of JR Shin Aomori Station, take the bus and get off at Kenritsu Bijutsukan Mae. | ||||
| Phone | 017-783-3000 |
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