Rocky Shore is pleased to announce our participation for The Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2021 running by Tokyo Photographic Art Museum as a local program.

On this occasion, we organize an exhibition called “Prayer and Meditation” engaging with artists from Japan, Lausanne(Switzerland), Ho Chi Minh City(Vietnam), Berlin(Germany), and Seattle(US).

 

'Under this strange time from the beginning of 2020, we consider that many people reflect on their lives. It has been the time for prayer and meditation. Many of us are unable to travel.

From this show engages with 6 artists from various parts of the globe, Rocky Shore would like to give the chance for the viewers as if they are traveling both overseas and their inner universe by observing the artworks.’

*Inside the building, we are showing the artworks from the past exhibitions as a viewing room (by appointment only). If you interested in inquire, please contact us via email or phone as following:
info@rockyshore.tokyo / +81 70 2663 5063
 

The Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2021 | Yebizo Meets

“Prayer and Meditation” exhibition

Dates 2021/2/10 sat - 2021/4/30 fri

13:00  -  18:00 

Closed on Sun, Mon, Tue

By Appointment Only (From Mar 4)

Artists:

Akiko Utsumi
Cyril Porchet
Orawan Arunrak
Saori Matsushita
Sébastien Leseigneur
Tran Minh Duc

Contact info:

+81 70 2663 5063

info@rockyshore.tokyo

Under this strange time from the beginning of 2020, we consider that many people reflect on their lives. It has been the time for prayer and meditation. Many of us are unable to travel.  

From this show engages with 6 artists from various parts of the globe, Rocky Shore would like to give the chance for the viewers as if they are traveling both overseas and their inner universe by observing the artworks.

Akiko Utsumi (b.1979 in Hyogo, Japan)
is an artist creates installation and photography. Received Ph.D of Inter Media Art. Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan in 2016. From her notable installation at 6th Echigo Tsumari Triennale, her practice keeps drawing attention internationally.

She create another scene using perceptual images to "re-experience" a certain event or place. While motion pictures provide concrete images, and signify meaning (photographs are always photographs of something), she tries to create an intersection between fiction and reality.
 


Cyril Porchet (b.1984 in Geneva)
is a photographer who started his study in photography in 2005, received the master degree for art direction at l’Ecole Cantonale d’Art et de Design de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2011.

His work was rapidly recognized and awarded several prizes, including the prestigious “Prix fédéral Suisse de design”, three times. He has exposure to various museums and galleries, including the “Maison Européenne de la Photographie” (MEP) in Paris, and the “Museum für Gestaltung” in Zurich (Switzerland). His work is conserved in several collections, notably that of the well-known art dealer and collector, Larry Gagosian.



Orawan Arunrak (b.1985 in Bangkok)
is an artist lives and works between Bangkok and Berlin. She received bachelor of Fine Art (Printmaking), Department Of Fine Arts, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok in 2017. Currently, she stays at artist in residency Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.

Her work is largely inspired by her everyday life. Using tools like pencils, pens, paper, but also photography and the internet, she creates works that take the forms of drawing, painting and installation. Her practice is aimed at engaging in dialogue with local inhabitants in an attempt to merge the space of art and non-art. Repeatedly crossing national, cultural and spiritual borders, Arunrak’s work has examined likeness and difference within and between varied locations in both Asia and Europe where she has lived in recent years, and based on relationships she has with these places.



Saori Matsushita (b.1990 in Tokyo)
is a sculptor and ceramic artist currently based in Seattle, US. In 2017, she enrolled in art production department work production area at Musashino Art University Graduate School of Art and Design Doctoral Course.

She creates sculpture of glazed pottery. ‘It is frightening and demonishable, not only that it intersects the vision of reality and fantasy in modern society, what kind of form the "holy one" is for people belonging to "non-religious", it exists beautifully there represents a sense of "holiness" concretely.’ She describes. Her doctoral thesis was the religious philosophy that appears in Brancusi sculpture.



Sébastien Leseigneur (b.1984 in Grasse, France)
is an artist, curator, and yogi based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Leseigneur worked previously as a production manager for Festival Images Vevey, Switzerland’s first visual arts biennale since 2018. He was an associate curator at Centre de la Photographie Genève from 2012 to 2017 and for the Geneva photography Triennale in 2013 and 2016.

In his different activities, he explores multidisciplinary forms of presenting/representation as well as critical thinking about visual culture, and more specifically its implications in all fields of contemporary society. He has been part of dozens of international exhibitions, events and publishing projects. Digital studies, poetics and politics are the main focuses of his research.



Tran Minh Duc (b.1982 in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam)
is an artist whose practices spans performance, photography, collage and installation and explores collective memory and cultural archives through investigating historical narratives, the effects of colonialism and imperialism, and the lasting impacts of war and migration. Received BFA from painting department from College of Culture and Arts of HCMC, Vietnam. Since early 2020, he is based in Osaka, Japan.

He is interested in interactions between the collective and the individual, the local and the foreign. His practice interrogates what it means to be Vietnamese in the complex fabric of contemporaneity. Trần worked previously as a manager and program coordinator at San Art, an artist-initiated, non-profit contemporary art organization in Ho Chi Minh City committed to the exchange and excavation of cultural knowledge within an interdisciplinary community.