東京とシンガポールのアーティスト8人の展示”PROJECT 6581 – Parallel Perception And Counter Connection”がシンガポールのJapan Creative Centeにて2月8日～28日に開催されます。
この企画は昨年から今年にかけて行われた2国間の交流プログラムが元になっており、日本人の作家とシンガポールの作家が滞在場所を交換して制作した成果の展示になります。私は昨年8月にシンガポールに滞在した際のアイディアを元にした作品を展示します。詳しい内容はこちらからご覧ください。
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A group exhibition by four Singapore artists and four Japanese artists.
Participating artists:
Representing Singapore: Yeo Shih Yun | Justin Lee | Ade Putra Safer | Khairullah Rahim
Representing Japan: Aya Murakami | Kaoru Murakami | Chihiro Kabata | Yuri Kabata
Project6581 is a collaboration of INSTINC Singapore and Youkobo Art Space Tokyo. Gaining its name from the phone codes of Japan and Singapore this project involves the exchange of 4 artists from each country in a collaborative residence program.
Each pair of artists immersed themselves in the city for a period of one month and created works inspired by the city. In this series of art residency exchanges, two pairs of Singaporean artists and two pairs of Japanese artists switch cities and explored art in a culturally displaced frame of mind, as they try to find a parallel in space and time of where they came from and where they were situated. The attempt to negotiate the differences of geography that result in differences in ways of life and ways of thinking in the two different countries give rise to a series of artworks that revealed a reconciliation or a resolution of the issues explored and exposed.