29 March 2022
In this talk, award-winning Japanese artist Saeborg shared the trajectories of her practice and discussed some concepts which she is planning to develop further – Oikos, life/biology, power and vulnerability, care, and viruses.
Fully bookedMore info5 April 2022
In this talk, Asako Shiroki discussed her artistic practice and The wind blows in, her solo exhibition on show at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, with a curator and writer, Ellen Greig.
More info17 March 2022
The Private View was a chance to have a first look at the exhibition The wind blows in by Asako Shiroki.
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is pleased to showcase Asako Shiroki’s first UK solo show, The wind blows in. Originally trained in silversmithing, Shiroki moved on to working in wood. She describes this natural material as simultaneously confrontational, adaptable, and a means to explore the temporal process of bringing form to raw material. The performative act of working the wood crystallises in the exhibition space as an installation, choreographed in physical relationships, balance, and tension between shapes. Shiroki respects the ephemeral nature of reality and how metamorphosis takes place in our environment; she reflects fragility and strength through her practice, hence her works can be dismantled to lie dormant until they are ready to be re-assembled.
More info18 March 2022
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is pleased to showcase Asako Shiroki’s first UK solo show, The wind blows in. Originally trained in silversmithing, Shiroki moved on to working in wood. She describes this natural material as simultaneously confrontational, adaptable, and a means to explore the temporal process of bringing form to raw material. The performative act of working the wood crystallises in the exhibition space as an installation, choreographed in physical relationships, balance, and tension between shapes. Shiroki respects the ephemeral nature of reality and how metamorphosis takes place in our environment; she reflects fragility and strength through her practice, hence her works can be dismantled to lie dormant until they are ready to be re-assembled.
More info16 February 2022
In this Artist Talk, Yukako Tanaka and curator & writer Fatos Ustek, discussed the artist’s practice through visiting each component of the exhibition and drawing overarching thematic framework that lies at the heart of Tanaka’s artworks.
Fully bookedMore info20 January 2022
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is proud to present the first solo exhibition of award-winning artist Yukako Tanaka, who currently lives and works in London. Tanaka’s practice spans a range of media from video and sound installations to the use of the latest viewing technologies including holographic visualisation and tactile 3D modeling. These modes of creation culminate in a fusion of art, science and philosophy where her art is positioned as a potential vessel that contains and informs disciplinary processes and their varying approaches to knowledge production.
More info20 January 2022
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is proud to present the first solo exhibition of award-winning artist Yukako Tanaka, who currently lives and works in London. Tanaka’s practice spans a range of media from video and sound installations to the use of the latest viewing technologies including holographic visualisation and tactile 3D modeling. These modes of creation culminate in a fusion of art, science and philosophy where her art is positioned as a potential vessel that contains and informs disciplinary processes and their varying approaches to knowledge production.
More info23 November 2021
In this talk, Tanaka reflected on his artistic practices, about living together, filming and acting, community and performativity, and his approaches to history over the years. It also included his experience of being forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to reconsider his method of bringing people together. The discussion was moderated by Sally Tallant, President and Executive Director at the Queens Museum in New York, who is currently leading a programme, ‘Year of Uncertainty,’ that brings artists, community partners, and co-thinkers together with the team to reimagine the museum. Along with Tanaka’s newly published book “Reflective Notes (Recent Writings),” this talk gave us hints to help rethink how to live together during and after the pandemic.
More info5 October 2021
Rui Matsunaga’s work combines a western Christian discourse with her Japanese cultural background. It is woven with animism and full of ambiguous stories. In this talk, the artist discussed with Dr Charlotte Mullins her philosophical interest in animism, and how the films and manga comics she grew up with strongly influenced the formation of her identity, from which she visualizes her stories and creates parallel worlds to reflect on the context of our current crisis. Matsunaga finds inspiration in Renaissance masterpieces filled with Christian mythology. She discussed how she has interpreted them into the symbolical and mystical language with which she describes the world.
Fully bookedMore info9 September 2021
The Private View was a chance to have a first look at the exhibition The Myth of Survival by Rui Matsunaga. The exhibition title points to the links between ‘myths’ and ‘survival’. Survival itself is something of a myth, as we live in a world in which famine, plague and war have not been solved. Meanwhile, we need myths for survival. The ‘human story’ described by Yuval Harari binds humans together by building our social identity as the strongest species on the planet.
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