Japan Society Gallery presents seventeen visionary artists on the 5th anniversary of japan’s triple disaster. « In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11 » opened on March 11, 2016, five years to the day since an enormous earthquake and tsunami struck northeast Japan, devastating coastal regions and setting off nuclear power plant failure. On view through June 12, 2016, the exhibition is the centerpiece of an institution-wide observance of what was the most widely photographed catastrophe in history.
First organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where it was on view in 2015, In the Wake features more than 90 photographs, videos, and installations created by 17 artists who contemplate what has been lost and what remains in the aftermath of a national tragedy that took some 18,000 lives and displaced another 400,000 individuals. The reconceived and expanded presentation at Japan Society is divided into three sections, focusing on documentary approaches to the disasters, experimental uses of photographic techniques in search of a 3/11 iconography, and the development of a visual narrative for Tohoku, the Northeastern region of Japan hardest hit by the earthquake. In charting a gradual progression from objectivity to experiment and metaphor, the Japan Society Gallery’s installation of In the Wake emphasizes transformations in Japanese artists’ practices since 3/11 for the first time in a major U.S. exhibition.
The artists presented in In the Wake are: Takashi Arai (b. 1978), Nobuyoshi Araki (b. 1940), Ishu Han (b. 1987), Naoya Hatakeyama (b. 1958), Takashi Homma (b. 1962), Kikuji Kawada (b. 1933), Rinko Kawauchi (b. 1972), Keizo Kitajima (b. 1954), Kōzo Miyoshi (b. 1947), Yasusuke Ota (b. 1958), Masato Seto (b. 1953), Lieko Shiga (b. 1980), Munemasa Takahashi (b. 1980), Shimpei Takeda (b. 1982), Masaru Tatsuki (b. 1974), Daisuke Yokota (b. 1984) and Tomoko Yoneda (b. 1965).
EXHIBITION
In the Wake, Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11
From March 11th to June 12th, 2016
Japan Society Gallery
333 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017
United States
http://www.japansociety.org
