The Shiseido Gallery will hold the exhibition "Watanabe Shiori: Syuku" from Wednesday, November 6, 2024 to Thursday, December 26, 2024.
Shiori Watanabe creates many works that allude to the challenges we humans face together, focusing on motifs that evoke the conflicts that arise between humans and nature, such as invasive species and extinct species.
This exhibition will feature Watanabe's representative work Sans Room, which connects aquariums and planters with hoses to circulate water and bacteria to create an autonomous ecosystem, as well as a new Noh video installation inspired by the Noh play Okina. Okina depicts the cyclical relationship between humans, gods, and nature, in which a god "resides" in a human, offers prayers, and then returns to human form, as well as the marginal view of nature that lies dormant in the Japanese archipelago. Watanabe also points out that in modern times, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, there may be a growing awareness that viruses survive by "residence" in the human body, and a growing sense of coexistence with other species and others beyond nations and communities.
This exhibition examines the dynamism that has shaped Japan's ecosystem through the relationship between humans and nature over a long period of time, shining a light on it from the perspective of "accommodation," highlighting the various issues inherent in it and searching for clues as to how we should live in the future.
Artist Profile
Shiori Watanabe
Born in Tokyo in 1984. Graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Chuo University with a major in French Literature in 2008, completed a degree in sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2015, and a graduate degree in sculpture at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the same university in 2017.
Major exhibitions include "Non Not equal Between man and matter" (3331 Arts Chiyoda, 2021), "Bebe" (WHITEHOUSE, 2021), "Totou Tarari Tararira Tarari Agarirararitou" (Shinjuku Kabukicho Noh Stage, 2022), "BLUE" (SACS, 2024), and more.
Highlights of the Exhibition
1. Sans Room, the largest exhibition to date, making the most of the Shiseido Gallery's space
Watanabe's masterpiece, Sans Room, has been exhibited at a number of venues to date, but the work will be dynamically deployed in three dimensions in the Shiseido Gallery space, on a larger scale than ever before.
2. Video installation of new Noh work <br /> A new Noh work that Watanabe created together with Noh actor Shingo Kato, Noboru Yasuda, and information studies researcher Dominique Chen will be exhibited as a video and sound installation work.
3. Performance Art <br /> Performers will appear at irregular intervals in the venue and perform performances using "movement." Please pay close attention to announcements from the Shiseido Gallery regarding when and how often they will appear.
Reference image
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1. Sans room
2017~ Installation: bacteria, bluegill, water, vegetables, tubes, etc.
2. 《RED》
2024 Video installation (multi-channel)
Photo by Ogawa Naohiro
3. "Finally dripping, dripping, dripping, rising, dripping" Exhibition
2023 Project Organizer, Planner
Photo by Naoki Takehisa
Related projects
■ Shiori Watanabe x Dominic Chen Talk Event Date and time: Friday, December 13th 19:00-20:00
Place: Shiseido Gallery Advance registration required. Participation is free. *Application procedures and other details will be provided on the Shiseido Gallery website.
We are also planning other events. Details will be announced on the Shiseido Gallery website as soon as they are decided.
Shiori Watanabe Inn/Syuku Event Details
Organized by: Shiseido Co., Ltd. Cooperation: Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores [Ladder Project]
Date: November 6th (Wednesday) – December 26th (Thursday), 2024
Venue: Shiseido Gallery 1F basement, Tokyo Ginza Shiseido Building, 8-8-3 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061
tel. 03 -3572 -3901 fax. 03 -3572-3951
URL: https://gallery.shiseido.com/jp/exhibition/7689/?rt_pr=trr19 (Watanabe Shiori Syuku details page)
Tuesday to Saturday 11:00 to 19:00 Sunday and public holidays 11:00 to 18:00 Closed every Monday (Closed even if Monday is a public holiday)
Free admission
*This exhibition is a participating program of Art Week Tokyo.
From November 7th (Thurs) to 10th (Sun), the AWT BUS, a free shuttle bus that connects art museums and galleries in Tokyo, will also be making stops at the Shiseido Gallery.
URL: https://www.artweektokyo.com/
[Shiseido Co., Ltd.] Press release
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