Room 1

Yuki Higashino

Barely meet the requirements of an exhibition context

EXHIBITION /
MAY 5 TO JUNE 11, 2011

Informed by the methodologies developed by Conceptual Art and Institutional Critique, Japanese artist Yuki Higashino analyses, dismantles and transforms elements from history and pop culture for his artistic work. His practice rejects the profound, seeing it as politically regressive, and instead embraces the potentials and the complexities of the superficial, the transitory and the ridiculous. He treats subjects often marginalized in cultural discourse such as a minor news stories or pop songs to express the socio-economic condition of cultural professionals or the state of rightwing politics in Europe. Yuki Higashino’s work deliberately employs economic means of production so that photography, text and sound are often reduced to the point where they barely meet the requirements of an exhibition context.

 

 

Informed by the methodologies developed by Conceptual Art and Institutional Critique, Japanese artist Yuki Higashino analyses, dismantles and transforms elements from history and pop culture for his artistic work. His practice rejects the profound, seeing it as politically regressive, and instead embraces the potentials and the complexities of the superficial, the transitory and the ridiculous. He treats subjects often marginalized in cultural discourse such as a minor news stories or pop songs to express the socio-economic condition of cultural professionals or the state of rightwing politics in Europe. Yuki Higashino’s work deliberately employs economic means of production so that photography, text and sound are often reduced to the point where they barely meet the requirements of an exhibition context.

In collaboration with the Fonderie Darling (as part of the international residence ACC)