Tabaimo
By: [traduction français/japonais, Nanae Yuyama ; traduction japonais/français, Corinne Atlan ; traduction français/anglais, Jennifer Kaku].
Contributors: Quaroni, Grazia.; Fondation Cartier.
Publisher: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain; Actes Sud; Distributed in in the US by Thames & Hudson; FONDAT CARTIER
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Paris; New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
ISBN-13: 9780500976708; 9782742764860
Subjects: Tabaimo, -- 1975- -- Catalogs.; Video art -- Japan -- Catalogs.; Art, Japanese -- Catalogs.
Genres: Catalogs.
Description: Ayako Tabata, nicknamed Tabaimo - meaning "Tabata's little sister" - is famous in the Japanese contemporary art scene. In 2001, she was the youngest artist invited to participate in the Yokohama Trienniale. Her style - animated films that combine drawings evoking the "handmade" nature of traditional Japanese wood prints with sophisticated computer technology - provides a brutally honest glimpse into Japanese city life through dreamlike images. This book explores three video installations which reveal the violence of ordinary situations in an apparently gentle manner, playing on the transition between the normal and the abnormal, imperceptibly shifting from scenes of everyday life to deeply enigmatic, fascinating, and often disturbing situations.
Notes: This catalog was published on the occasion of an exhibition presented at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris, from October 27, 2006 to February 4, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Entretien avec Tabaimo = Interview with Tabaimo / Grazia Quaroni; title: Midnight sea, 2006; title: Haunted House, 2003; title: Akunin, 2006; title: Japanese Commuter Train, 2001.