DATE: December 12, 2009
In Japanese Kitchen, Japanese Commuter Train, public conVENience, and more, the contemporary artist Tabaimo has drawn animated videos of the fragmentary landscape of contemporary Japanese culture, and with them composed three dimensional installations. The results of her work have brought Tabaimo international acclaim. Right after her debut, in 2001, Tabaimo entered the first Yokohama Trienniale as its youngest ever participating artist. Ten years later, Tabaimo returns to Yokohama with five new video installations to open her largest solo exhibition yet.
As she enters her mid thirties, Tabaimo's exhibition develops a theme informed by the changing generations from her very unique point of view. In Tabaimo's early work, she juxtaposed common images of contemporary life to show the dark side of Japanese society. In more recent years, her work has become more introverted, as she has begun to explore an interest in the body, with recurring motifs of fingers, hair, and internal organs. In DANMEN, this world around Tabaimo is symbolized in the shape of a housing complex. In rooms of the exact-same floor-plan, different lives unfold. Like inserting a kitchen knife, Tabaimo cuts open a DANMEN (cross-section) of the housing complex, and various lives are carved out in a harmonious union of past and present. She invites you to set foot into the flow of raw images of people and nature, connected in her profoundly creative world.
Many events during the exhibition will present Tabaimo's diverse world. In addition to public lectures, other creators of Tabaimo's generation, including a dancer, a musician, and a theater group will collaborate in live dance and theatrical performances.
Yokohama Museum of Art, December 12, 2009 - March 3, 2010
traveling to
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, July 10 - September 12, 2010
Tabaimo: DANMEN
In her 10th year as an artist, Tabaimo opens a DANMEN (cross-section) of a new world.In Japanese Kitchen, Japanese Commuter Train, public conVENience, and more, the contemporary artist Tabaimo has drawn animated videos of the fragmentary landscape of contemporary Japanese culture, and with them composed three dimensional installations. The results of her work have brought Tabaimo international acclaim. Right after her debut, in 2001, Tabaimo entered the first Yokohama Trienniale as its youngest ever participating artist. Ten years later, Tabaimo returns to Yokohama with five new video installations to open her largest solo exhibition yet.
As she enters her mid thirties, Tabaimo's exhibition develops a theme informed by the changing generations from her very unique point of view. In Tabaimo's early work, she juxtaposed common images of contemporary life to show the dark side of Japanese society. In more recent years, her work has become more introverted, as she has begun to explore an interest in the body, with recurring motifs of fingers, hair, and internal organs. In DANMEN, this world around Tabaimo is symbolized in the shape of a housing complex. In rooms of the exact-same floor-plan, different lives unfold. Like inserting a kitchen knife, Tabaimo cuts open a DANMEN (cross-section) of the housing complex, and various lives are carved out in a harmonious union of past and present. She invites you to set foot into the flow of raw images of people and nature, connected in her profoundly creative world.
Many events during the exhibition will present Tabaimo's diverse world. In addition to public lectures, other creators of Tabaimo's generation, including a dancer, a musician, and a theater group will collaborate in live dance and theatrical performances.
Yokohama Museum of Art, December 12, 2009 - March 3, 2010
traveling to
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, July 10 - September 12, 2010