Shimurabros: Specious Rainbow
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP is pleased to present Shimurabros' solo exhibition Specious Rainbow, starting January 14 (Sat).
SHIMURAbros is a sister-brother duo comprising Yuka Shimura, who was born in 1976 and holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree from Tama Art University and a master鈥檚 degree from University of the Arts London: Central St Martins, and her brother Kentaro, who was born in 1979 and holds a degree in Imaging Art from Tokyo Polytechnic University. After receiving an Excellence Award in the Art Division of the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival, hosted by Japan鈥檚 Agency for Cultural Affairs, the pair went onto have their works shown at Festival de Cannes and the Berlinale Festival and exhibited by art galleries in Japan and overseas. In recent years the works of SHIMURAbros have been exhibited at the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, and the duo has taken part in the residence program at the National University of Singapore鈥檚 Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA). Last year, ArtReview Asia magazine named SHIMURAbros as a 鈥渇uture great鈥�. SHIMURAbros relocated to Berlin in 2014 on a research grant from the Pola Art Foundation, where they are currently resident as researchers at the studio of Olafur Eliasson. Recently, the duo was chosen to create the thirtieth commission work for the Aichi Arts Center and the Aichi Prefectural Art Museum, which resulted in Butterfly Upon a Wheel (2022), a series of video works that considers the ongoing issue of refugees, starting with Sugihara Chiune, the diplomat who famously issued 鈥榲isas for life鈥� during WWII.
SHIMURAbros鈥� work to date has chiefly dealt with issues of representation in film. Themselves members of a generation that is being constantly bombarded with a myriad of images, SHIMURAbros have made repeated attempts to invent new types of imaging devices with the aim of invoking the innate power of images in novel ways.
The present exhibition, entitled Specious Rainbow, is a further development of the duo鈥檚 Trace Sky series, which uses optical glass to zoom in on individual scenes from films. By using optical glass to create bolder colours, the works in Specious Rainbow produce a visual experience that enables viewers to roam between reality and imagination via the images projected on the surface of the work.
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Tokyo Gallery + BTAP is pleased to present Shimurabros' solo exhibition Specious Rainbow, starting January 14 (Sat).
SHIMURAbros is a sister-brother duo comprising Yuka Shimura, who was born in 1976 and holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree from Tama Art University and a master鈥檚 degree from University of the Arts London: Central St Martins, and her brother Kentaro, who was born in 1979 and holds a degree in Imaging Art from Tokyo Polytechnic University. After receiving an Excellence Award in the Art Division of the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival, hosted by Japan鈥檚 Agency for Cultural Affairs, the pair went onto have their works shown at Festival de Cannes and the Berlinale Festival and exhibited by art galleries in Japan and overseas. In recent years the works of SHIMURAbros have been exhibited at the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, and the duo has taken part in the residence program at the National University of Singapore鈥檚 Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA). Last year, ArtReview Asia magazine named SHIMURAbros as a 鈥渇uture great鈥�. SHIMURAbros relocated to Berlin in 2014 on a research grant from the Pola Art Foundation, where they are currently resident as researchers at the studio of Olafur Eliasson. Recently, the duo was chosen to create the thirtieth commission work for the Aichi Arts Center and the Aichi Prefectural Art Museum, which resulted in Butterfly Upon a Wheel (2022), a series of video works that considers the ongoing issue of refugees, starting with Sugihara Chiune, the diplomat who famously issued 鈥榲isas for life鈥� during WWII.
SHIMURAbros鈥� work to date has chiefly dealt with issues of representation in film. Themselves members of a generation that is being constantly bombarded with a myriad of images, SHIMURAbros have made repeated attempts to invent new types of imaging devices with the aim of invoking the innate power of images in novel ways.
The present exhibition, entitled Specious Rainbow, is a further development of the duo鈥檚 Trace Sky series, which uses optical glass to zoom in on individual scenes from films. By using optical glass to create bolder colours, the works in Specious Rainbow produce a visual experience that enables viewers to roam between reality and imagination via the images projected on the surface of the work.
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