Matsufusa House | "Curatorial Studies 16: Yu Araki Reorienting —Artists Who Crossed the Sea 100 Years Ago—"
The Yu Araki exhibition at The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto prompts a reorientation of history through artists who crossed the sea.Summary
The exhibition "Curatorial Studies 16: Yu Araki Reorienting —Artists Who Crossed the Sea 100 Years Ago—" at The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, centers on artist Yu Araki and other artists who lived between Japan and the US, such as Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Eitaro Ishigaki, and Hideo Noda. The display features works by these artists alongside photographs by Alfred Stieglitz and Dorothea Lange, encouraging a re-examination of history's multifaceted nature against the backdrop of the unstable world 100 years prior. For example, Stieglitz's *Steerage*, long thought to depict immigrants to America, is now suggested to show those denied entry. Araki's new video work, *Sad Paradise*, uses a fictional spy narrative co-created with AI to explore the uncertainty of narration and responsibility, reflecting Araki's characteristic approach of 're-framing' or 're-seeing' objects and contexts. The overall exhibition structure encourages viewers to reinterpret individual works.
(Source：artscape)