Yuko KAMEI

Profile

Born in Kanagawa in 1979, spent her childhood in Nara, educated in Tokyo and London, and currently lives and works in Tokyo. Received BA in Dance Studies from Roehampton University in London in 2003, and MFA from Goldsmith, University of London in 2007. Her works emerge from her interests in creative relations between the human body and built environment. Deploying the body as a point of reference, she investigates the physicality and meanings of spaces.

Solo Exhibition
2009 Turning a space into a place, or vice versa, Shinjuku Ganka Garou, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Urban Visions_Tokyo: Tokyo Mangekyo, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany
2009 on concrete, TWS Emerging Artist Support Programme, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo
2008 Shinjuku Art Infinity Vol.5 & Vol.7, Marui City construction site, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Postgraduate MFA Exhibition, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2007 The Perpetual Body, [PAM] selected screenings, Scope New York, NY, USA
2006 Goldsmiths: MFA 2007 Survey, White Box, New York, NY, USA

Lectures
2009 'The body movement and the space of photography', guest lecture at the Graduate School of Film Producing, Tokyo, Japan
2008 'Body/Photography/Action', guest lecture at the Graduate School of Film Producing, Tokyo, Japan

About works / performance

My works emerge from my interest in creative relations between the human body and built environment. Deploying the body as a point of reference, I investigate the physicality and meanings of spaces. In response to a question of what we see when we look at a human body, I focus on the functionality of the artist's body and the presence of it in the media. My current interest is the mechanism of looking at the performing body of the artist in the space of photography.

in the grid_#03, gelatin silver print, 2008

Brand New Town, Higashimurayama 1, c-type print, 2009

hover over, gelatin silver print, 2008