Events category: Exhibition

7 March 2024

Japan, outside Japan
by Miyuki Okuyama

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is pleased to present Miyuki Okuyama’s first UK solo exhibition, Japan, outside Japan. The show will feature Okuyama’s two recent works, Dear Japanese: Children of War (2012-17) and Michinoku Homeward: Walking towards the Northeast (2021). Dear Japanese: Children of War (2012-17) is a documentary made from her personal point of view as a Japanese individual living in the Netherlands, portraying the children of Japanese soldiers and Dutch-Indonesian women, born during the Pacific War in Indonesia, now living in the Netherlands. Michinoku Homeward: Walking towards the Northeast (2021) is a very personal documentary about Michinoku, Okuyama’s home region in north-eastern Japan.

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18 January 2024

The Daguerreotype at the End of Our World

Photographer Arai Takashi was born in the late 1970s in the Japan of the Cold War. The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, followed by the Fukushima nuclear accident, was the first moment when his worst fears seemed to come true after Japan retreated into the amnesia of the bubble and post-bubble economy. Since he started to make frequent visits to Fukushima, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and other nuclear sites in Japan and the US, he has been considering the complex disparities between the different levels of narrative told by individuals, communities, and nations. In this talk, moderated by Simon Baker (Director of MEP: Maison Européenne de la Photographie and former Senior Curator, International Art at Tate), Arai discussed his interdisciplinary approach to nuclear issues utilising the uncertainty of the daguerreotype, one of the earliest photographic techniques, and the instability and fragility of his body and mind as an individual artist.

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13 October 2023

Fukiko Takase Dance Performance & Conversation with Adrienne Hart

Fukiko Takase is an American-born Japanese contemporary dancer. Born in New York, she was raised in Japan by dancers Takako Takase and Katsuko Orita, growing up in studios and theatres from an early age. Over the past 15 years, Fukiko worked with Henri Oguike Dance Company and Company Wayne McGregor before becoming an independent solo artist. In this event, moderated by Adrienne Hart, Fukiko will demonstrate some pieces of contemporary dance in which she has collaborated with Adrienne Hart, and explain the concepts behind the works. Fukiko will also tell us about her dance experiences and share her love of dancing with us, along with her recent activities.

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14 September 2023

Private View and Artist Talk: Sumi Kanazawa in conversation with Jonathan Watkins

This event provided a first look at the work of Sumi Kanazawa and hear her discuss with Jonathan Watkins the ideas and inspiration behind her work for the exhibition Erase and See. Kanazawa’s work Drawings on Newspapers exemplifies her understanding of the contradictions and discrepancies that characterise our past and present. Kanazawa suggests ways of being more imaginative about how to live now, and problematises distinctions conventionally drawn between individuals, politics and society, and between public and private identities.

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15 September 2023

Sumi Kanazawa, 2023. Installation view, Erase and See, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, 2023. Photo © 2023 Taihei Soejima.

Erase and See by Sumi Kanazawa

The Daiwa Foundation is delighted to present Erase and See, an exhibition of work by Japanese artist Sumi Kanazawa. Through an understanding of the contradictions and discrepancies that characterise our past and present, Kanazawa suggests ways of being more imaginative about how to live now, to problematise distinctions conventionally drawn between individuals, politics and society, between public and private identities. This is exemplified by her Drawings on Newspapers, showcased here. Like a star-spangled night sky, this large-scale installation radiates the kind of information that floods the world, counteracted through artistic intervention.

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16 June 2023

Otoineppu: Conversation with David Nash and Ryoko Sunazawa, moderated by Jonathan Watkins

Otoineppu is the smallest village in Hokkaido with fewer than 700 residents. The village is famous for its craftsmanship and art, and has wood carvings in many places, including the post office and railway station. David Nash and Bikky Sunazawa were inspired by Otoineppu’s pristine nature and wild forests and chose to work there. In this talk moderated by Jonathan Watkins, David Nash and Ryoko Sunazawa (Bikky’s widow) will explore artist practice in Otoineppu including the characteristics of the town, its natural environment and its seasons.

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15 June 2023

Private View: TENTACLE by Bikky Sunazawa

This event provides the opportunity to have a first look at the work of Bikky Sunazawa. Bikky Sunazawa was one of Japan’s most prominent post-War sculptors. Born in Hokkaido, he was self-taught, developing a practice that was concerned essentially with self-expression through capturing the spirit of human and animal subjects. He is most renowned for his woodcarving, sometimes for public sculptures, but also made abstract paintings and drawings, accessories and furniture. This exhibition, TENTACLE, showcases a number of Bikky’s sculptures, wooden masks, paintings and drawings, made during his mature period, 1975 – 1986, when he was living in Otoineppu village, Hokkaido.

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16 June 2023

TENTACLE by Bikky Sunazawa

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is pleased to present Bikky Sunazawa’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Bikky Sunazawa was one of Japan’s most prominent post-War sculptors. Born in Hokkaido, he was self-taught, developing a practice that was concerned essentially with self-expression through capturing the spirit of human and animal subjects. He is most renowned for his woodcarving, sometimes for public sculptures, but also made abstract paintings and drawings, accessories and furniture. This exhibition, TENTACLE, showcases a number of Bikky’s sculptures, wooden masks, paintings and drawings, made during his mature period, 1975 – 1986, when he was living in Otoineppu village, Hokkaido.

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9 March 2023

Private View and Artist Talk: AKI INOMATA in conversation with Dr Lena Fritsch

This event provided the opportunity to have a first look at the work of AKI INOMATA and hear her discuss with Dr Lena Fritsch the ideas and inspiration behind her work. The show will centre around one of INOMATA’s most recent projects, Memory of Currency (2018-2021) and introduce her practice, which for many years has involved collaboration with non-human creatures such as hermit crabs, bagworms, octopuses and ammonites. Memory of Currency is a project in which INOMATA collaborated with pearl oysters to create currency ‘fossils’. INOMATA implanted artificial nuclei into the tissues of the pearl oysters, with the shape of each nucleus modelled on the portrait of a figure depicted on one of today’s major currencies.

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10 March 2023

Autobiographical Animals by AKI INOMATA

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is pleased to present AKI INOMATA’s first UK solo exhibition Autobiographical Animals. The show will centre around one of INOMATA’s most recent projects, Memory of Currency (2018-2021) and introduce her practice, which for many years has involved collaboration with non-human creatures such as hermit crabs, bagworms, octopuses and ammonites. Memory of Currency is a project in which INOMATA collaborated with pearl oysters to create currency ‘fossils’. INOMATA implanted artificial nuclei into the tissues of the pearl oysters, with the shape of each nucleus modelled on the portrait of a figure depicted on one of today’s major currencies.

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