Moe Yoshida Veggetti Exhibition / 吉田萠「ジェルンディオ」

6 July – 31 July, 2017

about

Since traveling to Italy in 1998, Moe Yoshida has based her activities mostly out of Bologna and New York. Her main themes are memory and identity; their construction; and their visualization. In recent years she has tackled these themes with a “storytelling” approach. So far, in her performances, drawings, and other works, she has come to express “storytelling incarnate” by using anatomy and animals closely related to humans as subject matter. Working with “storytelling incarnate” and the sense of time inherent within it as a theme, the pieces in this exhibit are inspired by the acorn worm, a sea creature which shares a distant ancestor with humanity and lives in the sediment of shallow seas, where it eats sand, drinks ocean water, and filters both through its body. The exhibit will include 3D, relief, and 2D works. This will be Yoshida’s first exhibit in Japan, so be sure to see it.

吉田萠は、1998年にイタリアに渡って以来、主にボローニャとニューヨークを拠点に活動しています。吉田の主題は、記憶やアイデンティティーの構造やそれらを視覚化することで、近年は”物語る方法”にアプローチしながらこの主題に向きあっています。これまでのパフォーマンスやドローイングでも、解剖学や人間と深い関わりのある動物等を素材にして人間の”物語る身体性”を表現してきました。本展では、”物語る身体性”とそこに内在される時間感覚をテーマに、浅海の砂泥中に生息し、砂を食べ、海水とともにそれを濾過して排泄する、人類と遠い祖先を同じくする海の生き物（ギボシムシ）からインスパイアされた、立体、半立体、平面の作品を展開いたします。日本で初めてとなる展覧会、ぜひご高覧ください。