Asuka Goto “lost in translation”
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[Image: Asuka Goto "lost in translation" 85, pencil, colored pencil and collage on paper (2016)]
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York presents lost in translation, a solo exhibition of Asuka Goto’s recent project of the same name. lost in translation is the culmination of three years of work, documenting Goto’s process of translating Elizabeth, a novel by her father, page by page from Japanese to English. The resulting 200+ works do not exist as a traditional readable manuscript but rather as a series of annotated mixed media works on paper, one for each page of the novel.
While the initial impulse to translate her father’s novel was a way to acknowledge and explore the space that exists between Goto, a bi-racial American-born woman, and her Japanese father, the project as a whole becomes something much larger and more complicated than a way to explore the space between father and daughter. lost in translation attempts to hold many pairs of ideas together – translation project/drawing series, art object/annotated text, Japanese/American, father/daughter.
This tension becomes like trying to touch two like ends of a magnet together. The in-between space becomes charged with energy and meaning, the two ends constantly threatening to slip past each other, never touching.
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Schedule
from February 16, 2018 to March 25, 2018
Opening Reception on 2018-02-16 from 18:00 to 21:00