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Disruptive Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Japan
SHIGA Leiko When that Night Leads (still) 2023. Two-channel video. Courtesy of the artist
MIYAGI Futoshi The Ocean view Resort (still) 2013. Single-channel HD video. Courtesy of the artist and Yutaka Kiktake Gallery
MOMOSE Aya Flos Pavonis (still) 2021. Single-channel HD video. Courtesy of the artist
Talk
Meet in the exhibition
Join curator Melanie Oliver on the opening day of this new exhibition.
Featuring eight contemporary artists from across Japan, Disruptive Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Japan includes works that challenge societal norms and expectations as seen through landscape. Through quietly powerful video works, each artist reveals the kinds of politics that underpin our view of landscape, the ordering of the natural world, and assert diverse cultural viewpoints, histories and ways of being. From issues of gender and sexuality to political responses to disaster relief or biodiversity of species, landscape is shown as a culturally constructed form, a way to view nature, where reality and myth coexist.
