‘ We are, we are…’, was the title of a just concluded joint exhibition at Mumbai’s Guild Art Gallery featuring Yuki Okumura and Iram Ghufran who from a fluid perspective highlights the performative aspects of expressions of the other hiding between the folds of self, highlighted Renuka Sawhney in a curatorial essay.
On the other hand, Yuki Okumura's projects are experiments on how we can liberate ourselves from social and linguistic conditions that confines the way of our existence. They mostly take the forms of film, performance, writing, lecture, and workshop, and often created in collaboration with others.
Questioning this systematic confinement to singularity, and partly inspired by the ghostly structure of Japanese grammar, he tries to make situations open to plurality, where "I" malfunctions, or where new linguistic systems need to be built. In other words, his work explores "translation" or "mistranslation" as a way to present parallel realities regarding self and others, toward alternate ways of interpersonal communication.
Bereft of physical and legal set of identifiers – a court of law, the body as evidence, and a body of evidence- echoing the physical and the linguistic ambiguity and misrepresentations in Yuki Okumura’s work. How does the fictional and subjective nature of mis/representation provide a variety of meanings, both from an original imprint and a second or third imprint/interpretation?
And furthermore what negotiations occur between these translations as it relates to which version constitutes center and periphery, within a subjective and inter-subjective framework? These are some of the questions Yuki Okumura and Iram Ghufran highlight in their works, Sawhney explains.
Iram Ghufran is a filmmaker and an artist based in New Delhi. Her work has been shown in several international art and cinematic contexts: Berlin Film Festival, Watermans Arts Centre, World Social Forum and ISEA among others. She was based at the Media Lab at Sarai CSDS from 2004 -11. The recipient of the Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council residency for 2012, her film, entitled ‘There Is Something In The Air’ won the National Award for Best Direction and Best Editing, 2012.
Okumura was born in Aomori, Japan in 1978. In 2002, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Tama Art University in Tokyo. In 2004, he received a Masters of Fine Arts degree and Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo in 2012.
On the other hand, Yuki Okumura's projects are experiments on how we can liberate ourselves from social and linguistic conditions that confines the way of our existence. They mostly take the forms of film, performance, writing, lecture, and workshop, and often created in collaboration with others.
Questioning this systematic confinement to singularity, and partly inspired by the ghostly structure of Japanese grammar, he tries to make situations open to plurality, where "I" malfunctions, or where new linguistic systems need to be built. In other words, his work explores "translation" or "mistranslation" as a way to present parallel realities regarding self and others, toward alternate ways of interpersonal communication.
Bereft of physical and legal set of identifiers – a court of law, the body as evidence, and a body of evidence- echoing the physical and the linguistic ambiguity and misrepresentations in Yuki Okumura’s work. How does the fictional and subjective nature of mis/representation provide a variety of meanings, both from an original imprint and a second or third imprint/interpretation?
And furthermore what negotiations occur between these translations as it relates to which version constitutes center and periphery, within a subjective and inter-subjective framework? These are some of the questions Yuki Okumura and Iram Ghufran highlight in their works, Sawhney explains.
Iram Ghufran is a filmmaker and an artist based in New Delhi. Her work has been shown in several international art and cinematic contexts: Berlin Film Festival, Watermans Arts Centre, World Social Forum and ISEA among others. She was based at the Media Lab at Sarai CSDS from 2004 -11. The recipient of the Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council residency for 2012, her film, entitled ‘There Is Something In The Air’ won the National Award for Best Direction and Best Editing, 2012.
Okumura was born in Aomori, Japan in 1978. In 2002, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Tama Art University in Tokyo. In 2004, he received a Masters of Fine Arts degree and Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo in 2012.
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