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TOKAS-Emerging 2025
Four solo-exhibitions by emerging artists selected from 154 applications
“TOKAS-Emerging” is a program that Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) launched in 2001 with the aim to support young artists. Targeting Japanese resident artists aged 35 or younger, the program offers selected artists opportunities to exhibit their works. For “TOKAS-Emerging 2025,” four artists were selected through screenings from a total of 154 applications from across Japan.
Taking place from April to May 2025, these exhibitions of works by up-and-coming artists cover a wide range of formats, including two and three-dimensional artworks, video art, installations, etc.
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| Title | TOKAS-Emerging 2025 |
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| Period | Apr 5 (Sat) - May 4 (Sun), 2025 |
| Time | 11:00-19:00 (Last Entry: 18:30) |
| Closed | Mondays |
| Venue | Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo |
| Admission | Free |
| Artists | IZAWA Marie, NOMURA Yuka, OKUMURA Minami, TAKAHASHI Naohiro |
| Organizer | Tokyo Arts and Space (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) |
Artists
IZAWA Marie
“Forms of Living Beings, Forms of the Environment”
Considering a canvas as an environment, Izawa creates paintings themed around instances of “adaptation and repulsion” that occur within the respective environments. It is through repeated procedures of adaptation and repulsion, that various living creatures acquire bodies that enable them to live within certain frameworks, while their activities are at once also highlighting aspects of the environments they inhabit. For this exhibition, Izawa expanded her focus from certain environments to the situations surrounding them, and further, to other environments that exist at the same time, in order to create mainly large paintings that together define the “exhibition space” as one new environment in itself.
NOMURA Yuka
“Glowing Mountain”
In order to grasp transformations that occur in nature, and underlying forces on a scale far beyond human intelligence, Nomura creates works in the form of devices that function with the artist herself as motive power. Inspired by her fascination with coal as a texture and as a matter that contains accumulations of life and time, for this exhibition Nomura created works that depict mining tunnels, based on her research on coal mines in Hokkaido and Kyushu. In these works, the artist reflects on the relationship between humans and nature, and tells stories about humankind and the earth, revolving around coal as an energy source.
Support: Matsuura Art Foundation
OKUMURA Minami
“Peach, Q-ushu (Air Raid), 32850 Days”
Okumura has been collecting and studying various forms of what she calls “micro-letters” – scribbles and other handwritings in books for example. Understanding them as living traces that are intimately linked to individual people’s daily routines, she creates artworks by dismantling their structures and assembling them. At this exhibition, Okamura shows and installation combining two-dimensional works and videos, based on her research related to her 90-year-old grandfather. Based on recollections and observations of her grandfather as the years went by, here she explores connections between memory and the human body, and between handwriting and perception, within the flow of time.
TAKAHASHI Naohiro
“The Infrastructure Hu/Man and the 3Cs”
Taking as a central theme the mutability of the human body, and the way our perception and understanding of things changes accordingly, Takahashi creates human-shaped sculptures that can be dismembered. With today’s advanced distribution and communication technologies that enable long-distance operations and communication, it almost feels as if parts of our bodies are cut off in order to work at different locations. In this exhibition, Takahashi focuses on the body that is taken apart, modified and rebuilt to function in all kinds of systems and technologies. Through the human sculptures made up of parts taken from different individual works, he explores possible means of expressing relationships between human and non-human elements, and aspects of social life that cut our bodies apart.
Related Event
Artist Talk
| Date | Apr 5 (Sat), 2025 15:30-17:30 |
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| Artists | IZAWA Marie, NOMURA Yuka, OKUMURA Minami, TAKAHASHI Naohiro |
| Guest | FUKUMOTO Takashi (Curator, The National Museum of Art, Osaka), MORI Keisuke (Curator, Chiba City Museum of Art) |
| Venue | Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo |
| Admission | Free |
| Language | Japanese |
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