Mio Okido. Erinnerte Bilder, imaginierte Geschichte(n) – Japan, Ostasien und ich
In the organizer's words:
The artist Mio Okido (*1986 in the city of Sado, Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, lives and works in Berlin since 2015) is showing four new works. They were inspired by a residency as part of the project "The Collaborative Museum" (CoMuse). The theme is constructions of memories of the phase of Japanese imperialism/colonialism/fascism in East Asia, ca. 1872-1945.
One starting point are neo-traditional, national-Japanese paintings Nihonga from the exhibition "Japanese Painting of the Present", which took place in Berlin in 1931. Four of them are on display in room 318. In "Ghosts", Okido confronts them with motifs relating to Japan's military aggression in Manchuria in the same year.
The two-channel video installation "Betrachten" combines recordings that Okido made during a trip to Korea and Japan in 2023 of places, buildings, monuments and works of art as carriers of contradictory emotions and interests with historical images and documents to create a complex visual atlas of memory. All the images appear in black and white in a uniform format. With the blink of the artist's eye, the overall image of the projection constantly changes, illustrating ambivalences, openness and the constructed character of the narratives of history(ies) associated with the images.
"Facade of the Face" shows the artist with a veil of medallions. On it are images of "great men", who are regarded as heroes of Japan's modernization, but appear here in miniature and in the form chosen by Okido. In this way, women meet men, the individual meets the multitude and history meets the present.
The wall-based text work "Menschliche Beziehungen" ("Human Relationships") makes a link to the German language and thus also to Berlin and the world of today. By condensing the remembered narratives of history(ies) into "killing" or "being killed", it poses a central question for the present and history(ies) of the future.
Curatorial team
The exhibition is curated by Kerstin Pinther, curator for modern and contemporary art in a global context at the Ethnologisches Museum and Museum für Asiatische Kunst in cooperation with the artist and the curator for art from Japan.
A special exhibition of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin as part of the CoMuse project.
- free of charge
- Exhibitions: Wednesdays to Mondays from 10:30 - 18:30. Tuesday is a regular closing day.
- Location: Museum of Asian Art
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