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2004-08-22 to 2004-09-12
Opening Reception: 2004-08-22, at 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Tomoko INAGAKI - soap opera:
Since her stay in England as an art student, Tomoko INAGAKI has developed a series of performances and installations that were imbued with coolness, or provocation at times. Her performance eSeaf, in which she just continue weaving in silence an enormous structure of lace, or in eThe Last Dessertf, a couple repeat the kiss until they run out of a whole lipstick, these works seem to reflect keenly an aspect of reality in todayfs life by a close-up of repeated act.
esoap operaf, the title of exhibition, refers to a emelodramaf, which has taken a firm hold on Japanese TV culture. The success of this genre of love theater owes a lot to its somehow stereotyped heroines and heroes, who invite the audience to overlap her or his daily small desires with their personalities. For this show, Inagaki has chosen several young women among her acquaintance and taken a series of portrait. One might see in the gaze of these amateur-models posing in a minimal decor a subtle realm between daily and fiction.
The works on view, a series of photographs and a video installation realized from spring to summer this year, reflect also Inagakifs mental transit in this period and will serve as a point of departure for her next commitment to the residency program at eArcus Projectf in Ibaraki this autumn.
Tomoko INAGAKI : Born in Osaka 1975. BA Fine Art at Middlesex University 2001. Lives in Osaka
Selected solo exhibition : 2002 'Dream Island' (CAS, Osaka) / 2003 eUnderneath the Twinkling Starsf (Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna)
Selected group exhibition : 2000 'BANG' (Standpoint Gallery, London) / 2002 Kobe Art Annual 'Millefeuille' (Kobe Art Village Center, Hyogo) / 2003 'Komorebi' exhibition (Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki) / 2004 Osaka Art Kaleidoscope 'OSAKA 04' (Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka), etc.
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