About the Exhibition
BODY/PLAY/POLITICS presents contemporary works of art that delve from a variety of angles into images that have been generated throughout history by “the body,” which encompasses the individual human body, our collective actions, and spiritual presences. There is a tendency in our society to label specific bodies as healthy or unhealthy, beautiful or ugly, and to envision certain modes of behavior as representative of the entire group, which we classify such as “typically Japanese.” In other cases, minor deviations from norms or expectations can elicit strange feelings in observers and cause entirely different meanings to be perceived.
In a world cohabited by people with all sorts of skin colors, ethnicities, religions, gender norms and lifestyles, where the colors, forms, or behaviors of individual bodies are not inherently vested with specific meanings, over the course of millennia many value judgments and hierarchies have arisen in societies and are all too often linked to tragedies of history.
The six artists featured in this exhibition are from Europe/ Africa, Southeast Asia, and Japan. Their works express, in poetic and sometimes humor-inflected ways, aspects of history that manifest themselves through the body, looking toward the future and bringing the shapes of new ideas and meanings into view.
Artists
- Yinka Shonibare MBE
- Yee I-Lann
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- UuDam Tran Nguyen
- Ishikawa Ryuichi
- Tamura Yuichiro
*display order
Partner Project
Yokohama Dance Collection 2017 “BODY/PLAY/POLITICS”
| Dates | January 26, Thursday – February 19, Sunday, 2017 |
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| Venue | Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1 Yokohama Nigiwai Small Hall |
| Artists | Damien Jalet, Nawa Kohei, Tada Junnosuke, Eisa Jocson, etc. |
Damien Jalet｜Nawa Kohei《VESSEL》
For inquiries please call at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1 (Tel: 045-211-1515)
