AI KOKO GALLERYはこの度新スペースに移転しました。柿落としの展覧会として加藤康司の２度目の個展を開催いたします。

加藤は近年、特定の土地や物が持つ歴史的背景に焦点を当て、独自の視点から過去と現在、大きな物語と小さな物語、社会的な問題と個人的な物語を接続し、等身大のフィルターを通して新たに”物語る”映像作品を中心に制作してきました。

本展では「自主回顧展」と題した、アーティスト自身がこれまで作品を通じてリサーチしてきた「米軍基地」、「インドネシアと出島」、「父親」、「広島の慰霊碑」、「モンタヌスの『日本誌』」など、異なる様々なテーマを再度取り上げ、その関係性を紐解き直す自主企画の個展を開催します。

また来場者特典NFTとして、昨年2月にAI KOKO GALLERYで初公開された「空想紀行」を社会学者・毛利嘉孝が書きおろしたレビューのオリジナルデザインデータを無料配布します。

アーティストステイトメント

最近すごく忘れっぽい人間になってしまった。

目の前の制作や仕事に集中して、それらを積み重ねていくごとに、何か大事なことを少しずつ忘れていってしまっているような、慢性的な不安にかられてしまう。

制作はいつも、その時その瞬間の、目の前にある大切なこと、重要なことに目を向け、そこに形を与えていく作業のようなもの。映像であれ、彫刻であれ、絵画であれ、そのメディウムに記憶や意志を込める。

そしてその、大切だと思った何かを描いた痕跡が、自分の中の一部になったような感覚と共に、自身の活動の一部と称したりする。だからこそ、いつもそこには自分らしさが重要だったりする。

人は忘れる生き物だから、といえばそれまでの話だが、忘れるべきではない（忘れたくない！）という抗う気持ちも、当然ある。

この展覧会は、かつて触れていたこと、考えていたこと、大切だった何かを描き直し、当時の感覚を「展覧会」を通じてもう一度語り直すための自伝的”回顧録”としたい。

作家略歴

加藤 康司　https://www.kojikato.info/

1994年生まれ。2016年弘益大学校(韓国)交換留学。2021年東京藝術大学大学院グローバルアートプラクティス(GAP)専攻修了。 行き止まりスタジオ主宰。PARADISE AIRコーディネーター。

映像、立体、絵画など多様なメディアを用いて、協働性や政治性に焦点を当てた作品を制作。近年ではコラボレーションの手法を多く取り入れ、歴史化された権力構造からの逸脱、再解釈を試みる。

主な個展

2022　「空想紀行 / Real Imaginary Travelogue」AI KOKO GALLERY（東京）

2021    「For Whom We Fight ”A面”」gallery G（広島）

「For Whom We Fight ”B面”」THE POOL（広島）

2019   「爆発の輪郭線」Toride Genkan Gallery(茨城)

　　　「父を語ることは、世界を語ることかもしれない」blanClass(神奈川)

受賞歴

2021　アートアワードトーキョー丸の内2021、審査員 木村絵理子賞

Koji Kato “Auto-Retrospective” 

March 9 - March 25, 2023, 17:00 - 20:00, open on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Public holidays

AI KOKO GALLERY　(Room#601 Dai-ni-todoroki Bldg., 1-19-12 Ryusen, Taito-ku, Tokyo) Gallery has relocated. There is no elevator.

(Up to 5 people per 30 minutes)

Entrance Free. Please make a reservation at least one day in advance at the following URL. https://forms.gle/CnBGE2FfFJ4VJR99A

(For more inquiries, please contact aikokogallery@gmail.com or 050-5806-5596 )

Talk Event

March 11, Sat, 17:00~  Guest: Eriko Kimura (Chief Curator, Yokohama Museum of Art）

March 18, Sat, 17:00~  Guest: Futoshi Hoshino (Aesthetics, representational culture theory)
Up to 8 people per 1 hour.

Overview

AI KOKO GALLERY has moved to a new space. As the first exhibition after the relocation, we are pleased to announce Kato Koji’s second solo exhibition.

In recent years, Kato has focused on the historical background of specific places and objects, connecting the past with the present, big stories with small stories, social issues with personal stories from his unique perspective, and creating new “narrative” video works through a life-size filter. The exhibition will feature a “Retrospective” of the works.

This exhibition is an independent retrospective exhibition in which the artist will reexamine various themes that he has researched through his works, such as “U.S. military bases,” “Indonesia and Dejima,” “Fathers,” “Cenotaphs in Hiroshima,” and “Montanus’s Japan Magazine,” and redefine the relationship between these themes. The exhibition will be held as a special benefit for visitors.

As a special NFT for visitors, we will distribute free of charge the original design data of the review “Real Imaginary Travelogue” written by sociologist Yoshitaka Mohri, which was first shown at AI KOKO GALLERY in February last year.

Artist Statement

I have become a very forgetful person recently.

I am chronically anxious, as if I am forgetting something important little by little as I concentrate on the production and work in front of me, and as I accumulate more and more of them.

Creation is always like a process of focusing on what is important and significant in front of me at that moment in time, and giving form to it. Whether it is a video, sculpture, or painting, I put my memory and will into the medium.

And with the feeling that the traces of something I painted that I thought was important have become a part of me, I sometimes call it a part of my own activities. That is why it is always important to be oneself.

It would be a stretch to say that humans are forgetful creatures, but there is also a sense of resistance that says, “I shouldn’t forget (I don’t want to forget!),” which is natural.

This exhibition is intended to be an autobiographical “retrospective” to re-draw what was once touched, what was once thought, and what was once important, and to recount the sensations of that time through an “exhibition”.

Biography

Koji Kato (https://www.kojikato.info/)

Born 1994, Koji received his BFA from Tama Art University in 2014, MFA from the Global Art Practice at Tokyo University of Arts in 2021. Also, he studied at Hongik Art University in Korea through an exchange program in 2016.

His work is mostly video of his interests in exploring relations between political or social issues and himself for finding out power structure.

He has exhibited his work in group shows such as “Warmth of Stone (and) Trace of Breath” (Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo), “Strange Neighbor” (ART PARK, Seoul), “Re: mind the GAP” (HART Haus, HongKong), “Barrak: survibes Bangkok Biennial 2018” (White Line, Bangkok), “Openness?: The method of acquiring freedom” (Tokkaten|tochka, Tokyo), “Maebashi Media Festival 2017” (Old Yasuda Bank Security Warehouse, Gunma)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022

“Real Imaginary Travelogue”, AI KOKO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

2021    

“For Whom We Fight ”A面”, gallery G, Hiroshima, Japan

“For Whom We Fight ”B面”, THE POOL, Hiroshima, Japan

2019

"Outline of Explosion”, Toride Genkan Gallery, Ibaraki, Japan

“When I talk about my father, which may mean talk about a world”, blanClass, Kanagawa, Japan

Awards

2021

Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2021, Jury's Eriko Kimura Prize