Naha City
Yuki Teruya solo exhibition “Unterritorial Territory”
- Art / Exhibition
- Real-life event
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Admission fee free
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A solo exhibition by Yuken Teruya, who is from Okinawa and is based in Berlin, focusing on wall hanging works, including new and old works. In Okinawa, we will face the sea of Hotel Anteroom Naha, centering on unpublished works, and will exhibit unique to a traffic space. During the exhibition period, Teruya Yuken is planning to create a guest room exhibition where guests can actually stay.
TERUYA Yuken TERUYA
Born in 1973 in Okinawa prefecture. After graduating from Tama Art University, majoring in oil painting, he completed the School of Visual Arts MFA program in New York. Including the “Announcement-Mori” series, in which fine cuts are made in paper bags from fast food restaurants and paper bags of famous brands to create trees modeled after real trees such as street trees in paper bags, toilet paper cores, etc. By using daily necessities and familiar objects, sometimes changing their usage, and shifting their meanings, we create works of frameworks and problems that we do not notice every day.
TERUYA YUKEN STATEMENT
No matter what hotel window you look at, there is no same ocean view. There is only a few minutes of the sea from the hotel window. A small internal space creates a huge external space, and when it goes from the interior space (hotel) to the outside (Okinawa), another interior (Okinawa) and the outside (Japan) are born.
Most of the works in the Unterritorial Territory exhibition are works that have never been presented in Okinawa. Anteroom, which is a non-Okinawan space in Okinawa, gave me the opportunity to present works with aspects different from the themes that have been presented in Okinawa so far.
Okinawa in Japan was created as a heterotopian (different place), not utopian or dystopian, where rules and laws apply. And Okinawa's return to Japan continues even now, 50 years later. Just as Okinawa is a mirror reflecting Japan, my work is a mirror that reflects the overwhelming power that makes everyone lose.
New functions are reborn in “Dawn”, and gravity is absent in “Monopoly”. This “otherness” has hope and vision. Another vision for heterotopia.