Becoming Place「場所になる」
aliwen & Serena
24/06/2022 - 26/06/2022
UNTITLED space,
Kyojima, 3 Chome−13−7, Sumida City, 131-0046 Tokyo
Open: 12.00 - 7.00 pm
In June we would like to preset you an artist duo we have selected through ONA open call. The last exhibition from this series will bring works by aliwen (who is a non-binary trans femme activist, curator and writer from Chile) and Serena (a curator, researcher, and photographer from China). Both met in 2021 in Tokyo while making their MA at Tôkyô University of the Arts. However, not only artistic passion, but also a quest for searching new connections and meanings while making yourself at home in Tokyo, brought them together.
We are happy to invite you to to discover their newest exhibition "Becoming Place"「場所になる」
Becoming Place
Spaces transform into places when specific emotional and symbolic meanings become attached to them. These meanings arise through our senses, creating experiences and memories based on our own perceptions. Being an immigrant in a foreign country can make it difficult to achieve a state of belonging when transiting between the nostalgia of yesterday and the new place of tomorrow. Finding psychological and spiritual solace when interacting with nature, we use photography as an intimate medium that reflects on our surroundings. Placing careful attention to nature, its varied specimens, lighting, and densities of atmosphere with the passing of the day, we perform a playful ritual that yields a profound sense of place. Both walking through the forest or the sides of the Edogawa and the Sakagawa river, we wish to create a queer sense of ecology in which we become connected with the complex network of lifeforms that conform to our environment.
6月のオナプロジェクトルームでは、公募で選ばれたアーティスト・デュオをご紹介します。
この展示シリーズの最後の展覧会では、チリ出身のノンバイナリー・トランス女性の活動家、キュレーター、アーティストであるアリウェンと、中国出身のキュレーター、リサーチャー、写真家であるセレーナの作品を発表いたします。
2人は2021年、東京藝術大学大学院修士課程在学中に東京で出会いました。芸術的な興味・情熱だけでなく、東京でくつろぎながら新しいつながりや意味を探す探求心が、2人を結びつけました。この度の展覧会「Becoming Place "場所になる"」にぜひご期待ください！
「場所になる」
空間は、そこに感情や意味を与えるとき、「場所」へと変化する。これらの感情や意味は、私たちの感覚で感じられ、知覚に基づいた経験や記憶が作り出される。
移民は、自分の過去（故郷）と未来（新しい場所）の間で、そして慣れない地で、居場所を絶えず探している。自然に触れることに安らぎを感じるアリウェンとセレナは、その感覚を写真で捉え、身の周りの環境を映し出す。自然、その多様な要素、明かり、空気の濃度などに注意深く目を向け、遊び心にあふれた神聖的な心境を持ち、心の奥まで感心させられる。森を歩き、川を歩き、私たちの環境を形づくる複雑なエコロジーの感覚を作り出したい。
About the artists:
aliwen and Serena met in 2021 in the Master Program in Artistic Studies and Curatorial Practices, Department of Global Arts, Tôkyô University of the Arts (東京藝術大学).
aliwen is a non-binary trans femme activist, curator, and writer from Chile, interested in queer and decolonial perspectives on archives, histories, and performance in Asia and Latin America. They studied Art Theory and History at the University of Chile, and they published their first book, Barricade Criticism. Body, Writing and Visuality in Contemporary Chile, in 2021 with Brooklyn and Santiago-based press Sangría Editora.
Serena is a curator, researcher, and photographer from China, interested in memory, landscape, nature, and gender topics in the East Asian context. She studied sociology at Southeast University in China. Photography has always been her way to connect to the fragments of everyday life.
aliwen is a non-binary trans femme activist, curator, and writer from Chile, interested in queer and decolonial perspectives on archives, histories, and performance in Asia and Latin America. They studied Art Theory and History at the University of Chile, and they published their first book, Barricade Criticism. Body, Writing and Visuality in Contemporary Chile, in 2021 with Brooklyn and Santiago-based press Sangría Editora.
Serena is a curator, researcher, and photographer from China, interested in memory, landscape, nature, and gender topics in the East Asian context. She studied sociology at Southeast University in China. Photography has always been her way to connect to the fragments of everyday life.
アリウェンとセレナは、2021年に東京藝術大学大学院国際芸術創造研究科修士課程で出会った。
アリウェンはチリ出身のノンバイナリー·トランスフェムの活動家、キュレーター、ライターで、アジアとラテンアメリカのアーカイブ、歴史、パフォーマンスに関するクィアと脱植民地主義の視点に関心を持っている。チリ大学で芸術理論と歴史を学び。2021年にブルックリンとサンティアゴを拠点とする出版社Sangría Editoraから『Body, Writing and Visuality in Contemporary Chile』（現代チリにおける身体、文章、視覚）を出版。
セレナは中国出身のキュレーター、研究者、写真家で、中国の東南大学で社会学を学ぶ。東アジアの文脈における風景、自然、記憶、ジェンダーに関心を持つ。常に写真を通して日常の断片とつながっている。
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