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Greetings,
I’m pleased to announce two recent events that have something to do with language. First, my drawings from a new series entitled "Extinction Studies” will be shown in a group exhibition called Meditative Nature at Gallery Tempo. This series is based on maps of Adirondacks, and it looks at our relationships with environment through language, specifically through names we give to places. Second, my project “Flow” has been included in a new publication titled WordPower: Language as Medium. "Flow" is an ongoing participatory art project that incorporates storytelling method. In this project, I ask participants a simple question, “What is your relationship with water?” and provide a manual typewriter for them to type their responses.
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Upcoming Exhibition
Meditative Nature
Featuring the works of Carol Baum, Niels Burger, Yizhak Elyashiv, Katrine Hildebrandt, Michael MacMahon, and Naoe Suzuki
May 5 – 28, 2019
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 5, 5-7pm
Gallery Tempo
1378B Beacon Street, Brookline, MA
Email: info@gallerytempo.com, Tel: 617.383.4393
Gallery is open by appointment only.
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In my recent series entitled "Extinction Studies," I look to the past to help imagine the future, as I have also done in my projects at the Broad Institute. Fascinated with finding so many locations that have animals’ names such as “Little Otter Pond” or “Salmon River” on maps of the Adirondacks, I started tracing the names of these animals and other creatures from the maps and covering everything else in black ink. This work is an attempt to imagine both past and future, as scientists suspect that we may be living through a sixth mass-extinction of species in Earth’s history. In the era of the Anthropocene, we are experiencing loss and death of thousands of species at a significantly faster rate. Floating in the sea of blackness, these names become stars in the sky, constellations, and ghosts of our memories of places we hold dear.
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"Map of Saranac Lake and Surrounding Area, 1954" from Extinction Studies series. India ink on BFK Rives paper. 42.5"x 53", 2019.
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Publication
WordPower: Language as Medium
WordPower: Language as Medium features various forms of text art expressed through performance, drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, photography, socially engaged practices and intervention in public spaces. At the center of their process is the desire to distribute ideas through language and disrupt ways in which works of art are ‘read', devising methods for transcribing speech into objects to be looked at.
The two-part publication features work from artists in the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, South Korea, Japan, Ukraine, Chile, Uganda, Iran and Israel. The selected works from 100 artists offers a glimpse at a diverse range of creative practices that locate the written word as central to their process.
I'm excited that my work is included in this important publication. "WordPower: Language as Medium" is published by Library X in UK.
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As always, thank you very much for your ongoing support.
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With gratitude, onward.
Naoe
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