Artist File 2015
Next Doors: Contemporary Art in Japan and Korea
Date
July 29 (Wed.) – October 12, 2015 (Mon.)
Closed Tuesdays (except Tue., Sept. 22)
Opening hours
10:00-18:00 *10:00-20:00 on Fridays
(Last admission 30 minutes before closing)
Venue
The National Art Center, Tokyo (Kokuritsu-Shin-Bijutsukan), Special Exhibition Gallery 2E
7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan 106-8558
YOKOMIZO Shizuka (b. 1966-)
Born in Tokyo; currently residing in London
By making use of photography’s special properties, Yokomizo Shizuka questions various relationships between the medium and human beings as subject matter. There is a stark contrast between the intimacy of Sleeping, depicting a sleeping friend in a dark bedroom, and the brusque encounter in Stranger, showing someone writing a letter to a seemingly unknown person without exchanging a word. Yokomizo selects her medium based on the theme of the work. This is apparent from Forever (and again), a video work focusing on the performance of an aged pianist, which deals with the theme of “time.” Recently, all, a series of photographs depicting a pregnant woman’s body in which fantastic images intersect with reality, gave Yokomizo the opportunity to think more deeply about the cultural-anthropological issue of what images really are.