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Chikako Yamashiro (born and lives in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture in 1976), who has been actively promoting artist activities since the 2000s as the main media of video and photography, has been born and raised in Okinawa's history and geopolitical situation Through facing, he worked on works that convey the voice, body, and soul that have been overlooked and overlooked, and has been highly appreciated both in Japan and abroad.
The image produced by Yamashiro has an exquisite balance between the fertility and poetics of the image that appeals to the viewer's physical sense, and the critical point of view that looks at the contemporaries, It is open to reading and interpretation in a broader context, not just the problem of a particular region of Okinawa.
This exhibition, the first solo exhibition of the public museum, introduces the latest works of Yamashiro, which will be released for the first time, in combination with representative works from the past, focusing on its collections. Rather than simply tracing the transition of works along a time series, it organically arranges new and old works, so that a series of themes and motifs that resonate with each other are organized by traveling around the exhibition room.
“Reframing”, which is also the title of the latest work, refers to changing the framework of watching things and reviewing it in another framework. Take a look at the landscape of your hometown Okinawa from a new perspective by photography and video It symbolizes the attitude of passing through Yamashiro's works. This is the first full-scale opportunity to see the world of works as a mid-career solo exhibition by Chikako Yamashiro, a visual artist who is expected to take a further leap internationally.

I use photography and video for works that use my body or the body of others, but I believe they can obscure the boundaries between reality and imaginary worlds, and create multiple meanings between images and viewers it is from.
—— Chikako Yamashiro (2020)

“Reframing”
Cast: Takao Kawaguchi/Ri Suna Reno/Shogen et al.
Yamashiro is the latest result of recent research that has been working on and working on the landscape and reality of Okinawa from a new perspective. Based on historical facts, he uses cinematic narratives and conversational plays based on landscapes and topography in northern Okinawa to draw fairy tale stories. Takao Kawaguchi, who also appeared in “The Origins of Creation” (2015), choreographer and dancer, who is engaged in activities that connect art and society, Osamu Sunaji, from Okinawa and worked as a model and movie actor Shugen and others diverse and versatile performers gather and show their physical expression/dance in the work is one of the core of the story. The actors of the Okinawan play also appear.

Yamashiro Chikako | Yamashiro Chikako
A filmmaker, artist. Born in 1976, Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture and lives. Graduated from Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts in 1999, Department of Painting (Oil Painting). 2002 Completed the Department of Environmental Design, Graduate School of Art and Design, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts. Associate Professor, Department of Advanced Arts and Expressions, Tokyo University of the Arts since 2019. Major books include “Circulating Art of Chikako World Yamashiro” 2016 and “Chikako Yamashiro” 2012 (both published by Yumiko Chiba Associates).

Organized by: Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture Metropolitan Museum of Photography, The Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Nikkei Shimbun
Grants: Kao Science Foundation

Advance applications are required

Yamashiro Chikako Reframing

https://topmuseum.jp/contents/exhibition/index-4023.html

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