SIMPLY UNFORGETTABLE By Andrew Maerkle Everything Is a Re-Enactment (2015), single-channel color video with sound, military uniforms, 26 min. Commissioned by the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2015. Born in Vietnam, raised and educated in the US from the age ofView More >
III. Damage Control Training, USS Nashville, Senegal (2009), from the series “Events Ashore.” ART iT: Looking back over your career, do you feel that each project has its own contained aspect to it, or is there some element over whichView More >
II. US Marine Expeditionary Unit, Shoalwater Bay, Australia (2005), from the series “Events Ashore.” ART iT: You mentioned your project “Small Wars,” which was shot with Vietnam War reenactors in the US. As I understand it, you were actually participatingView More >
FIRES ON THE PLAIN By Andrew Maerkle US Naval Hospital Ship Comfort, Haiti (2010), from the series “Events Ashore.” A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius Grant” in 2012, An-My Lê is one of the most remarkable photographers working today.View More >
TIME RECOVERED By Natsuko Odate and Akira Rachi From Erased Slogans (2008), collection of 97 Durst lambda prints, dimensions variable. All images: Courtesy Kiri Dalena. Working both as an artist and an activist, Kiri Dalena explores the socio-political issues affectingView More >
III. Perspective Study (2012-14), offset print and acrylic on paper, wood, chicken wire, 91.5 x 60 x 4 cm. Installation view at Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, 2015. All images: Photo Keizo Kioku, © Mark Manders / Courtesy Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp,View More >
II. Mind Study (2010-11), wood, painted expoxy, painted ceramic, painted canvas, iron, 170 x 240 x 500 cm. Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht. Photo David Huguenin, courtesy Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. ART iT: So far we’ve beenView More >
II. TSR 14 (2014), detail. Photo Takashi Otaka. ART iT: In your section of the Parasophia catalogue, you clarify the politics by including detailed captions for the images that you used, and adding a text on the historical context. IView More >
NOUGHT BUT THE LEG By Andrew Maerkle Dry Clay Figure (2014), painted bronze, wood, 101.3 x 42 x 45.1 cm, installation view at Gallery Koyanagi, 2015. Photo Keizo Kioku, © Mark Manders, courtesy Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, and Gallery Koyanagi,View More >
BETWEEN VOID AND MASS By Natsuko Odate Left: OFFERING – Collection #5 (2014). Right: OFFERING – Collection #27 (2014). All images: Courtesy Emiko Kasahara. Born in Tokyo in 1963 and currently based in Kanagawa, Emiko Kasahara is best known forView More >