Mar. 15, 2024

Remembrance beyond images
Mar. 1, 2024－Jun. 9, 2024

Kishin SHINOYAMA, “Meaning of the House”, Suzu City, Ishikawa Prefecture,
1974, silver dye bleach print, Collection of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Exhibition Summary｜The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is pleased to present the exhibition,“Remembrance beyondimages.”With rapid advances in research in the fields of brain science, neuroscience, psychology, andphilosophy, the systems and processes involved in memory are becoming increasingly apparent. Inaddition, there is renewed interest in the issues of memory and identity in the context of today's fastaging society. This exhibition focuses on how photography and film, which both serve to document
time, have attempted to capture “memory” as a contemporary theme.
The works on exhibit demonstrate diverse approaches that include techniques of transforming
personal records into collective memories by sublimating them into works of art, expressions thatencourage the sharing of historical memories beyond time and geographical distance, and evenattempts to generate new images through use of cognitive AI. The exhibition will feature over 70works, including new and previously unseen works in Japan, by 7 groups of 8 artists from Japan,Vietnam and Finland, including Kishin SHINOYAMA, Tomoko YONEDA, NGUYỄN Trinh Thi, Nodoka
ODAWARA, Goro MURAYAMA, Marja PIRILÄ, Satoko Sai + Tomoko Kurahara, and others.

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Photography has the power to transform personal memories
into a broader collective memory of the times. This section
introduces three series of works by Kishin SHINOYAMA (1940–2024), who since the 1960s has been not only a leading figurein the world of photography, but also a forerunner of the newage. The three series include “Birthday,” composed of his own
commemorative photographs; “Meaning of House,” which wasexhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1976; and “ATOKATA,” areportage of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
“Meaning of the House”, Kawanabe County, Kagoshima Prefecture, 1975, silver dye bleach print,
Collection of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Tomoko YONEDA
Is it possible to discern the traces of history within everyday
landscapes? Based in London, Tomoko YONEDA (b.1965)
continues to create works that engage with domestic andinternational themes of epic scale, such as conflicts and clashes
in ideology. This section presents a reconstruction of three series
of work,“The Island of Sakhalin,” “Scene,” and “DMZ.” Such works
evoke within us distant and invisible borders.
“Scene”, Ice Rink – View of a mining town that was part of the South Manchurian Railway zone during the Japanese occupation,
Fushun, China, 2007, chromogenic print, Collection of Tokyo Photographic Art MuseumNGUYỄN Trinh Thi

Letters from Panduranga, 2015,
single-channel video, 35min, Collectionof Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

The announcement in 2009 by the Vietnamese government of plans to build the nation’s first nuclear
power plants, had served as an impetus for contemplating the extensive history of the Cham people andthe preservation of their culture. Letters from Panduranga is an important work by internationallyacclaimed filmmaker Nguyễn Trinh Thi (b.1973), presented at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume(France) in 2015, as well as other international venues.

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Nodoka ODAWARA
This is a text-based work by sculptor and critic Nodoka ODAWARA(b.1985).

Theartist

considers

therelationshipbetween‘photography’ and ‘sculpture’ through the story regarding the bust(statue) of Hikoma UENO, the founder of photography in Japan,
which was lost during World War II and later reconstructed,
drawing reference to related materials belonging to photography
historian Sadao UMEMOTO.
Photographer unknown, Commemorative Photograph of the Unveiling Ceremony for the Reconstruction of the Bronze Statue ofHikoma Ueno in His Later Years, 1951, gelatin silver print, Collection of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Goro MURAYAMA
If the artist continues to create works 1,000 years from now, what kind ofworks will he create? Goro MURAYAMA tasks himself with producing 1,000drawings, and with the aid of Qosmo, Inc.’s creativity and technology, uses
AI-learned data of his works to predict what his drawings may look like amillennial into the future. In relation to this, Takashi Ikegami and Alternative
Machine considers the issue of evolution based on their research andexperiments using artificial life forms.

Data Baroque - A Thousand Drawings for Machine Learning, 2023-2024, acrylic medium withIron pigments on paper, Collection of the artist

Marja PIRILÄ, Satoko Sai + Tomoko Kurahara
These portraits were taken using the camera obscura technique to project the outside sceneryindoors. The subjects of the portraits are nine elderly people living in the Finnish city of Turku. The
ceramic works are screen-printed with photographs from photo albums belonging to the respective
subjects. From the works it is possible to see that each of these figures have led diverse lives while
being greatly impacted by the vicissitudes of the times.
Marja PIRILÄ, “Inner Landscapes, Turku”,
Camera obscura / Ruth, 2011,archival pigment print, Collection of the artist

Satoko Sai + Tomoko Kurahara,“Inner Landscapes, Turku”, Ruth, 2011,press-moulded ceramics, screenprinted with under-glaze colors. glazed
inside, Collection of the artist3

Outline of exhibition｜
Dates:

Mar. 1, 2024－Jun. 9, 2024

Closed:Mondays (The museum will be open on Monday, April 29 and Monday, May 6, andclosed on Tuesday, May 7).

Venue:

2F Exhibition Gallery, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum〒153-0062 Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita Meguro-ku Tokyo 153-0062

Open Hours: 10:00–18:00 (Thu. / Fri. 10:00–20:00)*Final admission 30 minutes before closing.
Admission： Adults ￥700/ College Students￥560 / High School and Junior High SchoolStudents, Over 65￥350*Admission is free for children in elementary school or younger; junior high school
students living or attending schools in the Tokyo metropolitan area; holders ofJapanese disability identification cards (shogaisha techo), along with up to two
caregivers; and holders of the museum’s annual passport.
Organized by Tokyo Photographic Art Museum operated by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for Historyand Culture
Supported by the Corporate Membership of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
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