Press Release2024.8.18

EvE (Rika Nakashima, Shimpei Sugino)
Oh My Head
September 7 - October 6, 2024
Talion Gallery is pleased to present “Oh My Head,” an exhibition by Shinpei Sugino and Rika
Nakashima.
Shimpei Sugino graduated from Musashino Art University's Department of Culture and Design
Studies in 2015, and since then has been creating Act Poetry and self-made instruments todocument his performances. Sugino is known for his works such as Pile Driver, a wooden stakeequipped with electric guitar functions and driven into the ground, and Heavy Weight, a performance where he holds a pickup microphone over a refrigerator and connects a guitar effector toit. Additionally, Sugino is a member of KCN.kitchen, a group whose motto is "Revolution starts
from the Kitchen."
Rika Nakashima graduated from the University of the Arts London and completed the Graduate
School of Global Art Practice at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2023. Nakashima explores
concepts such as the relationship between the private sphere and public space, liminality, andin-betweenness. Through gestures that demonstrate the social construction of the body andmind in urban life, she examines the function of art as a heretical catharsis. In her solo
exhibition last year, titled Keep out of □, Nakashima considered the development ofcontemporary art as a manifestation of religiosity. She developed a sound installation thatcombined the Oratio (the prayer language) of Hidden Christianity in Japanese history, religious
potteries, and the symbol of a regular square, which represents the private sphere.
In this exhibition, the two artists will collaborate on the theme of "the incomprehensibility ofsharing pain." Through their performance, they aim to question the impossibility of painrepresentation. They will address the issue of pain as a personal experience that is separated
from empathy, the experience of others, and religious beliefs that may arise from it.

EvE (Rika Nakashima, Shimpei Sugino)
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Shimpei Sugino

1992

Born in Aichi, Japan2015

Musashino Art University (B.A., Culture and Design Studies)

Lives and Works in Tokyo
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2024"A Garden of Prosthesis" Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo(Tokyo)"New Year Listening" TOMO Museum (Tokyo)

2023"Seascape/Futurescape " YUMI ADACHI CONTEMPORARY(Kanagawa)

Rice cooker listening station | 2023
Performance at Datsuijo, (a) place to be naked"STUDIO OPENDAY vol.3" Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto)"Hauntological Experiment vol.2" (a) place to be naked(Tokyo)"Home Listening" TOMO Museum (Tokyo)"Bunka Union International Film Festival 2023" Bunka Union(Tokyo)2022"EAR sports"SCOOL (Tokyo)
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2021"Open Studio at Ghost" studio Ghost (Tokyo)"Battery vol.1" Yoyogi Park (Tokyo)

2020"BGM/V&C Ambient Day" Little Far Record (Tokyo)"OBJECT at ANTEROOM" ANTEROOM (Kyoto)"performance night vol.3" CSLAB (Online Sreaming)

Piledriver | 2022 | Performance at Hiratsuka City, Kanagawa"Squats Meeting in Shibuya Evolution of Amusument Park"RELABEL Shinsen (Tokyo)"KCN Presents Kitchen Revolution ~January revolution~"
PARCO Gallery X (Tokyo)
2019"ACOUSTICLUBvol.4" Uchisaiwai Hall (Tokyo)"Jingumae Studies Project "Murakami Hiroshi VS Sugino
Shimpei" " FL 田 SH (Tokyo)"Sound Performance Platform 2019" Aichi Prefectural Art
Theater (Aichi)

2017"Sugino Shinpei solo exhibition "Piledriver" " Awoba soh(Tokyo)

Fridge music | 2020 | Performance at CSLAB Performance night vol.3(Online streaming)

Piledriver | 2019 | Performance at Aichi Prefectural Art Theater,
Sound performance platform

Rika Nakashima

1995

Born in Aichi, Japan2018

Chelsea College of Arts, UAL (B.A., Fine Art)

2023

Tokyo University of Arts (M.A., GA)

Lives and Works in Tokyo
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024"A Green Light Room" Atelier Mondial (Basel)

2023"Keep out of □" TALION GALLERY (Tokyo)

2021"I tower over my dead body" Gallery TOH（Tokyo）"Bodies On The Matter" Tomotoshi Art Museum（Tokyo）
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024"INTERSTICE" le ventre (Hegenheim, Swtizerland)2023"Geist Enclosure" studio ghost (Tokyo)

Behind the Death of Queen Bees | 2024
Sound installation | photo:Demet Lydogan"Excavation of Site_Some Practices" organized by General
Museum, Rahmania Super Market (Tokyo)
2022"Awakening and Illusion: Dialogues with the Invisible" Goethe
Institut Tokyo (Tokyo)"Hauntological Experiment - datsuijo's Opening Event" datsuijo(a) place to be naked (Tokyo)"Still Feudal - Yamamoto Handshake, N/A/S/L" Mexico City(Mexico)"The Arts of Dissent: Art and Democracy" Chinretsukan (Tokyo)"Cherry Blossom Party " eitoeiko (Tokyo)

2020"A City Dreaming " Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Museum（Tokyo）

Supermarket | 2024 | General Museum participating project
video: Leo Nelki"A Waiting Room" Goethe Institut Tokyo（Tokyo）"Maebashi Art Film Festival " Maebashi（Gumma)
2019"SGFA(SOUND::GENDER::FEMINISM::ACTIVISM) TOKYO"

2017"Translations" Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground（London）

Tokyo University of Arts Chinretsukan (Tokyo)"Cue 2 Cue" Etcetera Theatre（London）"Cross Play" White Conduits Project Gallery（London）
2016"Territories" Cookhouse（London）"The Beginning of Truth" Punctum Gallery（London）"MEETING POINT" Myatts Field Park（London）
2015"Synonyms for exploration" Triangle Space（London）

Keep out of □ | 2023 | Installation view at TALION GALLERY
photo: Keizo Kioku

PROJECTS
2023"datsuijo-(a)place to be naked" (Tokyo)

2021"s.s.s.s. " roji-to-hito（Tokyo）" 親交宗教 " Tomotoshi Art Museum（Tokyo）

I tower over my dead body. | 2021 | Installation view at Gallery TOH
photo: Naoki Takehisa

ー[ Exhibition Informations ]Title"Oh My Head"

Artists

EvE (Rika Nakashima, Shimpei Sugino)

DateSeptember 7 - October 6, 2024 11 am - 7 pm
Closed on Monday, Tuesday and Holidays

Venue

TALION GALLERY (2-2-1 B1, Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo)

Directed byTsuyoshi Ueda (TALION GALLERY)[ Inquiries ]TALION GALLERY
Email: info@taliongallery.com Tel/Fax: +81-3-5927-9858
171-0031 B1 2-2-1 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo URL: www.taliongallery.com
For visitors in wheelchairs or those who have difficulty with steep stairs, elevator is available.
Please call the gallery staff for the guide. (+81-3-5927-9858)