NYAB Event - Haruki, Nagashima and Watanabe Exhibition

Haruki, Nagashima and Watanabe Exhibition

Longhouse Projects

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Longhouse Projects present, in its project room, photographs by Maiko Haruki and Yurie Nagashima as well as unique digital prints by Go Watanabe. Haruki’s work focuses on an architectural framing of portraits of the anonymous passer-by. These images are not edited in any way, but use naturally occurring frames found in contrasts between dark and light. A box of photos, taken by Nagashima’s grandmother 25 years earlier, was discovered at her grandfather’s house after his death. On view is a work from the series entitled Swiss, which reinterprets these found photographs connecting to the artist’s ongoing topic of ‘family’ that she has examined for 20 years. The series also questions the value of undefined women artists’ works not shown in art history. In addition, there are portraitures of plants with their botanical names. These are a derivative study of the Swiss series, examining whether one interprets a photographic image itself or by its description. Watanabe’s digitally created prints zoom in on the surface of familiar spaces and objects, crafting an autonomous scene apart from their original ‘forms.’

Maiko Haruki was born in 1974 in Ibaraki, Japan and lives and works in Kanagawa. She studied at Tamagawa University in Japan and Goldsmiths College in the United Kingdom. Recent exhibitions include: Taro Nasu Gallery in Tokyo; Galleria Carla Sozzani in Milan; The Museum of Modern Art Gunma; Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino in Kanagawa; Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum Collection Gallery in Okinawa; and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Haruki has published catalogues including possibility in portraiture in 2011. In 2008, Toyo Ito awarded her the jury’s prize for her submission to ROPPINGI CROSSING 2007: FUTURE BEATS IN JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ART at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Her work is included in the public collections of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Mori Art Museum, Dazaifu Tenmangu in Fukuoka, Takamatsu City Museum of Art and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena in Italy. Earlier this year, Haruki was awarded the 31st Higashikawa Award for New Photographer.

Yurie Nagashima was born in 1973 and currently lives and works in Tokyo. She studied at Musashino Art University, and received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Past exhibitions include: SCAI the Bathhouse in Tokyo, Japan; a two-person exhibition at Parco Gallery in Tokyo, Japan with Catherine Opie; a group exhibition at the Art Gallery, University of Maryland, USA; a group exhibition at El Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain, and a group exhibition at Art Tower Mito in Japan with Takashi Homma and Miranda July. Nagashima has published photography books most, recently in 2014, called 5 comes after 6. In 2014, she led a workshop called “Photography as a Subversive Tactic: Being the Other” at the International Summer School of Photography in Latvia. She was awarded the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award in 2000, and with her writings, the Kodan-sha Essay Award in 2010.

Go Watanabe was born in 1975 in Hyogo, Japan and lives and works in Tokyo. He received his MFA at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. Selected recent exhibitions include: The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu in Japan; ARATANIURANO in Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland; The Singapore Museum of Art; Museum Haus Konstructiv in Zurich, Switzerland; SOMA in Seoul, Korea; Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taipei, Taiwan; and Espace Louis Vuitton in Tokyo. He received the 24th Gotoh Memorial Culture Award in 2013. Watanabe’s work is included in many public collections including the Takahashi Collection in Japan; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Borusan Contemporary in Istanbul, Turkey; Louis Vuitton in Paris; and the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.

Media

• Photography
• Prints

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