Show by The Canal
Group Exhibition presented by Fridge
09/02/22 - 20/02/2022
Andersson Contemporary, London, UK
Amongst The Chaos
Group Exhibition presented by Wondering People
01/07/21 - 04/07/21
155A Gallery, London, UK
ANTI FREEZE
Group Exhibition
04/12/20 - 06/12/20
Ridley Road Social Club, London, UK
PARTICIPATION MYSTIQUE
Solo Exhibition
01/03/2020 - 08/03/2020
Junbicyu, Tokyo, Japan
Society has always been interested in the archetypes of fools and monsters. They have a large and varied cultural history that spans circuses, with their mythologies and folklores in so many societies in the world. Why are they such timeless symbols in the world and in our imaginative representation of it? Why are we so fascinated by them? Why do they have such a long cultural presence? Perhaps like Shakespeare says in King Lear 'When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.' That life is a theatre of the absurd, a strange, short performance where all people seem destined to play their part and we are all inevitably fools and monsters.
人間はいつの時代も道化や怪物と不思議な関係をもってきた。古今東西の神話や昔話から、演劇やサーカス、トランプカードにまで彼らは繰り返し登場する。なぜ私たちは彼らにこんなにも惹かれ、彼らをぶきみがり、畏れるのだろう？
おそらく、リア王の台詞にも「我々は生まれ落ちたとき、この阿呆どもの舞台に来たことを泣き叫ぶのだ」とあるように、私たちは皆この奇妙な舞台でそれぞれの短劇を演じる道化や怪物そのものなのである。
哲学者レヴィ・ブリュールは、古今東西問わず文化に存在する象徴に対し、人間が論理では説明できない奇妙で本能的なつながりを感じ自分に反映する心性をPARTICIPATION MYSTIQUEと名付けた。この展示では道化や巨人、怪物といった象徴を再考して撮影し、青写真やフォトグラムからコピー機までいろいろな方法を使って印刷された実験的な写真シリーズと影絵のインスタレーションを展示する。
DIG THE GIANT WHOLE
Group Exhibition
04/07/2019
Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK
Through this amalgamation of images, we aim to configure a range of realities that stand; sometimes seen, some times imagined, sometimes created but all spaces for the movement of narratives, ideas and histories ‘When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools’. Celebrating society, communities and lone walkers. Dig The Giant Whole is a geographical topography for soil, spades, exploration and loose doors. The show will feature the work of Hexa Koo, Hilda Raina, Ayomi Toyo, Sasha Davai and Kirico Ueda.
