Sachiko Abe
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Collaborating with institutions, curator and artists to smudge cultural
differences and attitudes across physical and national borders.
Pushing the programme, exploring the traffic in ideas that are nomadic,
with a focus on perceptions rather than stereotypes and assumptions.
We come to play, escape prejudice and shout for renegade
values of the unfixable, broken and unhomely.
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Tamaki Kawaguchi
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Painting Day by day in the
Anthropocene
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Folkestone Triennial
Collateral 2017
Tamaki Kawaguchi performed Painting Day By Day In The Anthropocene for the opening of Leaving Language. The installation was on view at The Metropole Gallery Folkestone England.
“I paint on anything anywhere, especially in the everyday spaces that we don't notice ... like when I find growth between the cracks of concrete, hope and despair exist next to each other ... it is where a work of Art can find a breath for itself.”
Tamaki Kawaguchi is a painter and performer, who has turned the application of colour onto various surfaces into a spectacle. Masked in a translucent cubicle reminiscent of a scene from post apocalyptic cinema we are reminded that beyond the performance and spaces of Art there continues an irreversible erasure of biodiversity and the mechanics of creative culture colludes with this.
The unique aspect of the Metropole Gallery was it's six metre high windows that looked across the English Channel to France. These also drew in light to allow razor sharp illumination of surfaces. Shadows and Sunshine fell across the paintings of Kirico Tanikawa.
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They were like items from a modern Cinderella story that ominously lay in a Jigsaw puzzle of canvases, these iconic motifs were two pink shoes, a red lighter and a white decorated brassiere. Images that at first took your attention as recognisable and yet uncanny in that context, an uncomfortable frisson in the imagination: why had these possessions been left on a road?
These images are not what they seem but rather lead us towards another reading of surfaces, an enigma or code is commonly understood as something hidden in plain view and so it is with the pictures of Kirico Tanikawa.
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Every Artist invites interpretations in the plural rather than the singular, questioning the frameworks of words and of language.
Waugh Office was established in 2011 by Julia Waugh and Mark Waugh,
as a hybrid platform curating exhibitions, events and publications internationally.
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