Yuji Iwasaki
Emi Iwamuro
Munetaka Shinya
Hiroaki Enoki
Kumi Michishita
20.07.02-04.08.02
Private View: 19 July 2002, 7.00-9.00 pm
This exhibition features the work of five young Japanese artists based in London working in various media including; video, photography, installation and text. In the work in 'a blank page in a diary' different perspectives on elements of everyday life can be found in negotiation with physical, mental and conceptual spaces.
Yuji Iwasaki creates three-dimensional space reminiscent of animated cartoons from paper and clay. His models examine the nature of artificiality and lure the audience into their fictional spaces.
Emi Iwamuro works with photographs and installation. Her compositions consist of fragmented images of a girl, personal objects and domestic spaces. The sequence of images tell a story, yet the individual images allow the viewer to form narratives of his or her own outside the restrictions of a conventional, linear story.
Munetaka Shinya examines the conventional and functional in our everyday life. Shinya manipulates exhibition space with work that might be visible or invisible, physical or psychological in effect. He encourages the audience to re-evaluate their understanding of the art object as well as their sense of existence.
Hiroaki Enoki's video work questions our expectations of behaviour. People in uniform appear in his works, their practice is ambiguous. Their actions have contradictions within them, particularly when juxtaposed with their facial expressions. The uniforms are representative of authority and its control masking an individual's identity.
Kumi Michishita types text onto standard, white A4 paper. The text appears to be inconsequential nonsense. The viewer, looking for meaning/consequence imbues the banal structure with a magic. Understanding is encouraged through the viewer's involvement with the artist's word play.
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