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Artists & Works


Go-Betweens in a Minute


Artist Interview

#1 Won Seoung Won

#2 Santeri Tuori

#3 Kikuchi Tomoko

#4 Kim Insook

#5 Konishi Junya

#6 Shiota Chiharu

#7 Kondoh Akino

#8 Yamamoto Takayuki


Participating Artists / Artist Groups

* in alphabetical order of the artists’ (sur)names
* [country / countries of origin]

Christian Boltanski Born in 1944 [France]
Rineke Dijkstra Born in 1959 [The Netherlands]
Lewis W. Hine Born in 1874, died in 1940 [U.S.]
Teresa Hubbard /
 Alexander Birchler
Born in 1965 [Ireland] (TH)
Born in 1962 [Switzerland] (AB)
Kageyama Koyo Born in 1907, died in 1981 [Japan]
Kikuchi Tomoko Born in 1973 [Japan]
Kim Insook Born in 1978 [Japan / Korea]
Kondoh Akino Born in 1980 [Japan]
Konishi Junya Born in 1971 [Japan]
Miyatake Toyo Born in 1895, died in 1979 [Japan]
Tracey Moffatt Born in 1960 [Australia]
Suhel Nafar &
 Jacqueline Reem Salloum
[Palestine] (SN)
[U.S.] (JRS)
Nara Yoshitomo Born in 1959 [Japan]
Otake Shoji Born in 1920 [Japan]
Jacob A. Riis Born in 1849, died in 1914 [Denmark]
Shiota Chiharu Born in 1972 [Japan]
StoryCorps Active since 2003 [U.S.]
Fiona Tan Born in 1966 [Indonesia]
Teruya Yuken Born in 1973 [Japan]
Santeri Tuori Born in 1970 [Finland]
Ume Kayo Born in 1981 [Japan]
Won Seoung Won Born in 1972 [Korea]
Wong Hoy Cheong Born in 1960 [Malaysia]
Yamamoto Takayuki Born in 1974 [Japan]
Yoshioka Senzo Born in 1916, died in 2005 [Japan]
Zhang O Born in 1976 [China]

Works

Rineke Dijkstra
I See a Woman Crying (Weeping Woman)
2009
Video installation 12min. (loop)
Courtesy: Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris / New York

Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler
Eight
2001
Video
3 min. 35 sec. (loop)
Courtesy: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

Kikuchi Tomoko
Lost Boundaries
2012
Video
7 min.

Kim Insook
Great-grandmother and I (from the series SAIESEO: between two Koreas and Japan)
2008
Digital C print
118×150cm

Kondoh Akino
KiyaKiya
2010-2011
Animation
6 min. 39 sec.
Collection: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Courtesy: Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
Music © John Zorn

Konishi Junya
Time of Child
2006
Inkjet print
42×59.4cm

Miyatake Toyo
From the series Manzanar War Relocation Center
1942-1945
Gelatin silver print
50.8×60.8cm
Collection: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

Suhel Nafar & Jacqueline Reem Salloum
Yala to the Moon
2011
Live-action / animation
7 min.

Nara Yoshitomo
Missing in Action
1999
Acrylic on canvas
180.4×144.7cm
Private Collection
Courtesy: Blum and Poe,
Los Angeles

Jacob A. Riis
From the series The Children of the Poor
c. 1890
Gelatin silver print
20.5×25.2cm
Collection: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

StoryCorps
Q&A
2010 Animation 4 min.
Courtesy: StoryCorps

Ume Kayo
Junior High School Girls
2000-2001
Inkjet print

Won Seoung Won
Oversleeping (from the series My Age of Seven)
2010
Type C print
86×120cm

Wong Hoy Cheong
Aman Sulukule Canim Sulukule
(Oh Sulukule Darling Sulukule)
2007
Video installation 14min.
Dimensions variable
Courtesy: ESLITE GALLERY

Santeri Tuori
Red Shirt
2003
Video (16mm film on DVD)
4 min. 28 sec.
Camera by Kimmo Jaatinen
Produced by Galerie Anhava
Courtesy: Galerie Anhava

Yamamoto Takayuki
New Hell: What Kind of Hell Will We Go To?, Tokyo
2014
Video installation 11min. 8sec.
Dimensions variable

Zhang O
Daddy & I: No.29
2006
Type C-print
100×100cm
Collection: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Sections

Section 1: Beyond Culture

Highlighting various issues surrounding children, such as migration and international adoption, by looking at children living in multicultural situations.

Section 2: A World of Freedom and Isolation

Focusing on the loneliness peculiar to childhood, which adults tend to forget, and the world full of freedom and creativity it can bring.

Section 3: Memories of Pain and Conflict

Engaging with children’s experiences of pain: recollections of being hurt, memories of war, day-to-day conflict etc.

Section 4: Caught between Adult and Child

Turning attention to the quality of children that allows them to move back and forward between adulthood and childhood, by looking at children in adolescence.

Section 5: Moving between Different Dimensions

Exploring the possibilities for a richer and more diverse world by looking at how children move freely between reality and the worlds of dreams and imagination.