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YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY is pleased to announce its participation in Art Basel Hong Kong with a solo exhibition of Yuichiro Tamura. The exhibition entitled "NIGHTLESS / Last Signing Room" is composed of a new video work "NIGHTLESS Ver. 11" and installation including photographs and object "Last Signing Table".

NIGHTLESS
NIGHTLESS is a movie composed entirely from Google Street View. For each occasion the artist makes a new version, and this version 11 has been created especially for Art Basel HK using images only from Hong Kong. As the entire audio is also excerpted from You Tube, the artist himself has neither filmed nor recorded. History and fiction are weaved together beyond time and space into the movie wandering around Hong Kong. Even a segment of the scenes reminds viewers of stories. Hong Kong has an image of night views, however, the night never comes in this movie as Google Street View photographs are taken in daylight. A dream you see in Hong Kong, without the concept of night, is only a daydream.

Last Signing Room
-The history of Hong Kong is the history of signing-
All the historical events such as Treaty of Nanking in 19 century, the occupation surrender of Japan in 20 century, and the retrocession to China that is still fresh in our minds, have created interventions by the act of signing, and operated on a table. The exhibiting table is created according to the record of document contents, setting on the table, and the history of Hong Kong and the land. The letters are engraved by Buddhist tomb artisan who lives in Hong Kong. The letters engraved by a Hong Kong man also seem like inscribing a new sentence of the history of Hong Kong or making its tomb. Ironically, the act of signing might be difficult on the surface of a table that is no longer flat.

Cooperation: Kwok Family

About the Artist
Tamura was born in Japan in 1977, graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, currently a Ph.D. candidate. He has consistently pursued the possibilities of the moving image, taking photography as a point of departure while straddling various other media and frameworks, including film, installation, and performance. Tamura samples not only images that he has taken himself but also preexisting footage, coaxing unique relationships out of them in order to create new landscapes. The form of these works varies from installations that incorporate elements of bodily presence and experience, as well as performances that draw the spectator in. The NIGHTLESS has received the excellence award at the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2010, and has been shown internationally include; The 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany (2011); Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (2011); A Window to the World, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (2011); WRO biennale 2011, Wroclaw (2011);  FILE 2011, Sao Paulo (2011). He has selected for the MOT Annual 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo (2012). In 2012, NIGHLESS ver. 6 became a public collection of Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. He is a recipient of Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists at Institut für Raumexperimente (Berlin, 2013) and University of Arts London (London, 2013).

Artist's website
http://www.damianoyurkiewich.com/

Artisit Talk
Date: 23 May, 2013 5pm to 7pm
Location: Para Site Art Space, 4 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan
Information: +852 9123 5621, info@miaca.org
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Provided by: MIACA
Supported by: Art Basel VIP program, Para Site
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