MOT - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
"When Lives Become Form: Dialogue with the Future - Brazil, Japan"
curated by Yuko Hasegawa
videos inside assume vivid astro focus installation
“When we see Brazilian culture, it is characterized by unique modernism developed since the first half of the 20th century. Especially since the 1950s, it made a stunning development reflecting socio-political propagandas in all fields of architecture, design, and art. Now when we turn our eyes to its street culture, it is filled with indigenous culture that can be named as “vernacular pop.” It is driven by a power that avariciously mixes and hybridizes various cultures sprung from people’s life and body in urban streets.”
“One of the characteristics specific to Brazilian art is its “sensibility” witnessed in their manner of expression. Throughout the 1960s, art functioned as one of the practices that enabled psychological revolution to gain freedom. Those emerging artists after the 1990s have seen this spirit of the 1960s as a poetic politics and inherited it in order to awaken their sensibilities through their creative activities that have become part of their daily practice. These sensibilities are not those existing in their inner body, but those filled with their vitality as if piercing though their skins and springing out to transform their daily life through artistic practice.”
Yuko Hasegawa, Chief Curator, MOT (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
4-1-1 Miyoshi Koto-ku
Tokyo, 13
Japan
