©Shiongo Yoshida "I prepared the perfect answer that you wanted" 12:40min. 2010
From Friday 12 to Friday 19 November void+ will play host to the Shingo Yoshida exhibition NOWHERENOW.
NOWHERENOW is the first solo outing in Japan by this artist based primarily in France and Germany. Yoshida’s practice consists mainly of video works with a strong element of performance directly documenting the artist’s way of life. Presented here are three works, including a new offering.
Yoshida is constantly attempting to verify his own existence in different countries and societies; as a parasite, incubating in societies and situations, absorbing all, passing it through the filter of his own remembered experience, then feeding it back into “proof of existence” in the form of his works.
The new work at this show was produced in a place called Oiyakaha in the Amazonian jungle in Brazil. Due in part to an unexpected turn of events in an almost unimaginably challenging jungle environment, Yoshida’s three-week survival sojourn in this place come to by chance and lacking running water or electricity prompted a new regeneration of the self and reconstruction of circumstances, via self-destructive behavior. The result is a work of raw, unrelenting realism.
- Artist：Shingo Yoshida
- Title：NOWHERENOW
- Date：Nov. 12th (Fri) – 19th (Fri) 14:00~19:00
- Planning：Michiko Ogura
- Sponsored by: Shiseido
- Supported by：Ambassade de France au Japon
Shingo Yoshida
Born in Tokyo in 1974.
Graduated from the Villa Arson in Nice (MA diploma with high honors ),
Obtained his post-graduate diploma in art at l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon , and participated in The Research Program La Seine at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
He participated in the 10th Biennale de l’image en Mouvement in Geneva, New York Terminal Five (International Airport JFK), Biennale de Lyon (Rendez-Vous 2005), Cultural exchanges between France and South Korea and Malaysia. Festival of the UNESCO Mexico (Monterrey), Palais de Tokyo, Paris France, NCCA Moscow, Russia etc..
In 2009, he curated the project “village (nowherenowsomewherenowhere)” between Yokohama and Lyon for the 50th anniversary of Sister cities
Shingo Yoshida is travaelling through the world, the world is his studio, adapting his practice to where he is located. It is important for him to consider cities around the world as a place for creation with different lifestyles and different social code.
