Events category: Artist talk

29 June 2022

Three women by Maria Farrar

Maria Farrar is an artist based in London. Born in the Philippines in 1988, she was brought up in Shimonoseki, Japan, until the age of 15, when she moved to the UK. In this talk, Maria told the stories of three Filipina women who have left their country for work or through marriage. The three stories reflected the effects of separation, the sacrifices first-generation immigrant communities make, and how, despite the difficulty of being separated from your larger family circle, building new families in a new country is a beautiful thing.

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29 March 2022

Artist Talk by Saeborg

In this talk, award-winning Japanese artist Saeborg shared the trajectories of her practice and discussed some concepts which she is planning to develop further – Oikos, life/biology, power and vulnerability, care, and viruses.

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23 November 2021

Koki Tanaka in conversation with Sally Tallant

In this talk, Tanaka reflected on his artistic practices, about living together, filming and acting, community and performativity, and his approaches to history over the years. It also included his experience of being forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to reconsider his method of bringing people together. The discussion was moderated by Sally Tallant, President and Executive Director at the Queens Museum in New York, who is currently leading a programme, ‘Year of Uncertainty,’ that brings artists, community partners, and co-thinkers together with the team to reimagine the museum. Along with Tanaka’s newly published book “Reflective Notes (Recent Writings),” this talk gave us hints to help rethink how to live together during and after the pandemic.

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5 October 2021

Rui Matsunaga in conversation with Dr Charlotte Mullins

Rui Matsunaga’s work combines a western Christian discourse with her Japanese cultural background. It is woven with animism and full of ambiguous stories. In this talk, the artist discussed with Dr Charlotte Mullins her philosophical interest in animism, and how the films and manga comics she grew up with strongly influenced the formation of her identity, from which she visualizes her stories and creates parallel worlds to reflect on the context of our current crisis. Matsunaga finds inspiration in Renaissance masterpieces filled with Christian mythology. She discussed how she has interpreted them into the symbolical and mystical language with which she describes the world.

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13 July 2021

Mika Ninagawa in conversation with Dr Lena Fritsch

In this webinar chaired by Lena Fritsch, celebrated Japanese photographer and film director Mika Ninagawa spoke about her art practice, ranging from her iconic photographs of cherry blossoms and goldfish to her recent Utsurundesu series and portraits of Japanese Paralympics athletes. We also explored how she has adjusted her activities as a photographer during the pandemic, her feelings on social distancing and her view of the world today. Ninagawa’s work is currently on view at the Daiwa Foundation (15 June to 30 July 2021) and will soon also be displayed prominently at the Ashmolean Museum, as part of the Tokyo: Art & Photography exhibition.

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12 March 2020

Artist Talk: Hochoul Lee in conversation with Jonathan Watkins

Lee’s recent works have focussed on the meaning of human cognitive functions, and his works are greatly influenced by philosophy. Lee’s inspiration for this series of works comes from the worrying problems related to political issues, the spread of racism and the growth of nationalism, and he believes that the collapse of traditional ethics is related to a lack of imagination and acceptance towards individuality. In this Artist Talk, Lee and Jonathan Watkins, Director of Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, discussed the artist’s influences and the works on show.

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26 November 2019

Artist Talk: Hiroe Saeki in conversation with Ito Ogawa

Hiroe Saeki’s work inhabits a liminal zone on the edges of the perceivable: monochromatic explorations of the subject of beauty in nature, delicate drawings with a weightless quality, sparse compositions evoking traditional aesthetics. As in a photograph, the totality of the artwork and the detail are valued equally. In this exhibition, she presents a new body of work with graphite and water. The powdered graphite travels through capillaries of water: settling where and when the water evaporates, to be absorbed by the land of paper. The resulting surfaces recall water-carved planetary landscapes. Together with Ito Ogawa, the artist discussed her influences, her work and the exhibition Cosmogenesis.

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