The award for contemporary art that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Tokyo Arts and Space has been conducting since fiscal 2018 for mid-level artists with the aim of encouraging further leaps through continuous support spanning multiple years since the award was awarded.” “Tokyo Contemporary Art Award (TCAA)” This award commemorative exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo will feature works by Hikaru Fujii and Yamashiro Chikako, the second “TCAA 2020-2022” winners, in a solo exhibition format.
While empirically examining historical events in Japan and abroad, Fujii has always tried to respond to the social issues of the same era by bringing in current perspectives. In this exhibition, I will present a new work that examines the debate over painting after the war from the official documents left by the American occupation forces.
Until now, Yamashiro has produced works based on his hometown of Okinawa. Yamashiro, whose vision of the next work can be seen during the production process, will exhibit new works centered on research in Okinawa and past works that lead to it.

Fujii Hikari
Born in 1976 in Tokyo, lives and works in Tokyo
Works that respond to the social issues of the same era by examining cultures and histories unique to various countries and regions through in-depth research and fieldwork based on the idea that art is generated closely related to society and history is mainly produced as a video installation.

Yamashiro Chikako
Born in 1976 in Okinawa Prefecture
Based on the geographical, political situation and history of Okinawa, the hometown, while exploring the voices, bodies, and souls of people left behind in the East Asian region, the theme of identity, the boundary between life and death, and the transition of historical memory, photography and Produced using video He continues to challenge the potential of video and the possibility of performability.

Organized by: Tokyo/Tokyo Arts and Space Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

• Yamashiro Chikako

Tokyo Contemporary Art Award

https://www.tokyocontemporaryartaward.jp/exhibition/exhibition_2020_2022.html