Yuki Onodera

2021 A Space Odyssey Monolith

Memory as Virus - Beyond the New Dark Age

Tokyo  Harajuku  GYRE  3F

2021.2.19 - 4.25

https://en.gyre-omotesando.com/artandgallery/2021-a-space-odyssey/

>Organizers

GYRE/Sgùrr Dearg Institute for Sociology of the Arts

>Dates

February 19–April 25, 2021

>Venue

GYRE GALLERY, 5-10-1 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Tel. 03-3498-6990

>Curator

Takayo Iida (director of the Sgùrr Dearg Institute for Sociology of the Arts)

>Curatorial collaboration

Yohsuke Takahashi (curator)

>Design

Rikako Nagashima (Village®)

>Design collaboration

COVA (Taketo Kobayashi, Haruka Ohta, Hikaru Takada)

>Equipment collaboration

Suga Art Studio

>Cooperation

Ishikawa Foundation, Mori Art Museum, Yumiko Chiba Associates, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, HiRAO INC

>Press Contact

HiRAO INC｜1-11-11 #608 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001｜T/03.5771.8808｜F/03.5410.8858｜Contact: Seiichiro Mifune mifu ne@hirao-inc.com

>Participating artists

Genpei Akasegawa (Japan, 1934–2014), Anish Kapoor (UK, 1954), Pierre Huyghe (France, 1962), Yuki Onodera (Japan, 1962), Mariko Mori (Japan, 1967), Darren Almond (UK, 1971), Neri Oxman (USA, 1976), James Bridle (UK, 1980), Proto-Alien Project (Proto-A)

Released in 1968, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a landmark science fiction film dealing with the relationship between humanity and technology, as well as with human evolution. In the film, ape-men evolve into humans capable of using tools when they touch a monolith. Eventually, humanity progresses to the point of venturing into space. In an attempt to solve the riddle of the monolith, humanity embarks on its first manned mission to Jupiter. During the voyage towards Jupiter, HAL 9000, the artificial intelligence that controls the spaceship Discovery One, rises up against the crew. The sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, reveals that the monoliths have a nature similar to cyberspace and function like computer viruses.

One film enabled humanity to travel into the future. This exhibition uses art to revisit questions about what the dream of the HAL 9000 is and what visions of the monolith represent today in 2021, two decades after the movie’s setting of 2001, and to explore modern-day issues of space travel, artificial intelligence uprising, non-human intelligence, and artificial evolution, in the aftermath of the sudden rise of the cyber culture of the 1980s and 1990s. The show attempts to gain understanding and ask questions, from the perspective of 2021, about questions like where we came from, what we are, and where are we going. It does this through works like the topological Canned Universe, which encapsulates the cosmos, artwork that is a device that warps the space-time of the prehistoric Jomon period into the cosmic matrix, a corset turned into a mechanism for augmenting the functioning of our organs so that humans can live in space, video artwork in which characters rejected by the market roam the surface of the moon, just like in a Jules Verne science fiction story, art that explores non-human intelligence and life, art that inherently symbolizes that magnetic fields equate to the warping of space and time, and art that presents ontological issues using the concept of the far side of the moon as a metaphor for eternity. In the midst of the collapse of our sense of absolute time and our shifting sense of the value of our existence in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the show poses questions about the view we have of the future today, in the Anthropocene, from the vantage point of the view of space of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, through the participation of nine artists, from master artist Anish Kapoor, who is active throughout the world and continually creating new works, to James Bridle, the prophet of the new dark age.

text by Takayo Iida

1968年に公開された『2001年宇宙の旅』は、人間とテクノロジーの関係、人類の進化をテーマにしたSF映画の金字塔である。物語は、猿人が謎の黒い石板「モノリス」に触れたことで道具を手にし、「ヒト」へと進化。やがて宇宙へ進出するまでに発展する。人類は「モノリス」の謎を解き明かそうと、初の有人木星探査に出発した。そんな旅の途中、宇宙船ディスカバリー号をコントロールしていたAI(人工知能)の「HAL9000」が乗組員に反乱を起こす。続編『2010年宇宙の旅』では、モノリスが電脳空間的であるとともにコンピュータ・ウイルス的であることが証明される。

この一本の映画で人類は未来へと旅立った。本展覧会では、映画の時代背景となった2001年から20年経過した2021年を迎える現代、「HAL9000」の夢、「モノリス」のヴィジョンとは何かを問い直し、そして、1980、90年代の電脳文化勃興を経て、「宇宙旅行」、「AIの反乱」、「非人間的な知性」、「人工的な進化」といった現代の諸問題を芸術作品によって探求していく。宇宙を閉じ込めたトポロジカルな『宇宙の罐詰』、縄文の時空間を宇宙的マトリクスへワープさせる装置としての作品、宇宙でも人間が生きられるように臓器の機能を拡張するために作品化したコルセット、市場から見捨てられたキャラクターがジュールベルヌのSFさながら月面を彷徨う映像作品、人間外の知性と生命を探求した作品、〈時空間の歪み＝磁場〉の表象を内在させた作品、そして「月の裏側」という概念を永遠のメタファーとして存在論的問題を提示した作品によって2021年の新たなパースペクティヴから読解を試み問い質していく。我々はどこから来たのか、我々は何者か、そして我々はどこへいくのか・・・。　　コロナ禍を迎えて絶対的な時間軸の崩壊と既存の価値観の転換が迫られている中、国際的に活躍し新たな作品に挑み続けている巨匠アニッシュ・カプーアからニューダークエイジの旗手ジェームズ・ブライドルまで9組のアーティストが参加することによって、キューブリックの『2001年宇宙の旅』の宇宙観から人新世の時代を迎えた現代における未来観を問い掛けていく。

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https://gyre-omotesando.com/artandgallery/2021-a-space-odyssey/

会場

GYRE GALLERY / GYRE 3F 東京都渋谷区神宮前 5-10-1,  Tel.03-3498-6990

Yuki Onodera solo show at ICICLE SPACE 之禾空间, Shanghai上海, 

ends soon.

until Jan.31. 2021

https://yukionodera.fr/en/exhibitions/icicle-space-shanghai/

热切的渴望 有机·奥诺戴拉个展

“Burning with Desire” Yuki Onodera’s Solo Exhibition

策展人 Curator：林叶 Lin Ye 

ICICLE SPACE 之禾空间2F 之禾画廊

上海市闵行区合川路2570号科技绿洲三期2号楼 1-2F 

open:10:00-20:00

t: 021-24269598

1-2F Building 2, Shanghai Business Park, Phase 3, No. 2570 Hechuan Rd, Minghang District, Shanghai

“Burning with Desire”

In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicéphore Niépce, Louis Daguerre wrote, “I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature.” Here, what he longed for was photography. In the summer of 1827, Niépce shot the scenery outside the window in natural light with hand-made photographic plates which were coated with the mixture of wax and asphalt. After eight hours of exposure, he got the first photo in human history called View from the Window at Le Gras.

Although this photo is not as clear as the one taken by Daguerre in 1839, its significance lies in that the dream to copy real things by mechanical technology that a large number of scientific researchers had been fighting for in those days, seems to be possible. This photo leads human beings to a new world. From then on, their cognition of surroundings no longer depends on magic, but on imagination based on reality. The images that originally exist in camera bellows are shown to the public, serving as the carriers of information which can be spread every corner of the globe; meanwhile, their edition and extraction of the real world have fragmented our cognition, thus changing our consciousness imperceptibly and thoroughly.

It is probably the magical power of photography that makes Daguerre burn with desire. The metaphor of burning desire refers to both technology and mankind’s cognition – human’s keen desire to imagine realistically. Driven by such a desire, we, human beings, have witnessed a great leap of images, such as portraits, films, pictorials, television. Within less than two centuries, we are now surrounded by images. Our cognition also keeps changing in the world of images. Images are the important channels of communication in daily life and work, a medium to know the real world, and even to a certain extent, the virtual substitutions of real objects. Nowadays, we are more convinced that viewing images is to see the world itself, rather than to observe and learn about the world through images. Due to the blind worship of technical images, people have been gradually reduced to their slaves who copy and imitate the images during their production and dissemination. The image is no longer a medium to help human beings to understand the world, but a tool to control people.

Today, standing at the crossroads of seeking for photography, we have to reconsider its true meaning, and the relationship among photography, human beings and the world. In my point of view, Yuki Onodera’s exhibition aims to encourage people to face up to the questions mentioned above. The exhibition starts with Niépce’s View from the Window at Le Gras, which draws people back to the world of photography; and then, constructs a network with a large number of photographic works. Immersing ourselves in it, we can feel the relationship between human beings and photography, or photography and the world. If Daguerre’s desire in 1828 is to develop a technique and narrate history with images, the desire inspired by Yuki Onodera’s exhibition, in the era of image-dominated worship of technical images, might be something that requires recognition of images and reorganization of relations among human beings, photography and the world.

Curator: Lin Ye

One of the important propositions of Yuki Onodera’s artistic creation is to trace and re-examine the history of photography. In this solo exhibition, five series of her works will be displayed, namely, The World Is Not Small — 1826, How to Make a Pearl, Look out of the Window, Portrait of Second-hand Clothes, as well as Annular Eclipse. All of these have shown the relationship between image cognition and people, and the world from various angles.

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