Tobacco and Salt Museum Collection Gallery Summer Exhibition: "Landscape of Shells"
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Juri Akiyama
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year individual
Reiwa 5(2023) 1st Term Creation Grant Category I Single-Year Grant
Business Overview
Through this project, the museum created a place to look at the present of tobacco, which has long been involved in human cultural history, together with the history presented by the museum. This paper presents an approach that is not merely dichotomous to a culture that is facing considerable restrictions, cancellations, and negative campaigns regarding smoking and smoking, and is under pressure to reconsider to the extent that even smoking scenes in movies are cut. Especially during this exhibition, where children are the main viewers, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to touch such a sensitive theme through both contemporary art and cultural materials. In addition, by exhibiting contemporary art as an extension of the exhibition at a museum that exhibits cultural and historical materials, rather than at a museum, he tried to feel the commonalities and differences between works of art and artifacts and to question the framework and recognition of art.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, July 8, 2023 - Thursday, September 7
- Venues
- Tobacco and Salt Museum (Sumida Ward, Tokyo)
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Profile
Akiyama Juri
She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. He spent his junior high and college years in Hong Kong, London, and the United States. He explores the concept of “mototoshi ” in Japanese, which is like an imaginary number that mediates subjectivity, and tries to express it using rhetoric with motifs such as crushed cigarette boxes and gas cylinders. Using beeswax as the main material, he uses its plasticity to create an avalanche or maze.