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from the future

2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

“Eugene Kangawa is an artist who has attracted attention for his beautifully airy video works that emphasize process. from the future is a video/photography work that was produced from 2012 to 2013 as part of the “supervision” series, in which Kangawa employs his unique expressive method to elegantly capture demanding subjects that come to light when two different contexts are traversed. In this exhibition, the work will be showcased in the form of a three-channel installation.

The process of creating from the future involved inviting to Fukushima a person living abroad who had no information regarding Fukushima and its surroundings, and asking the person to write an imaginary story about “what happened here and when” as well as to record the scenery around. Composed of such materials that present the viewpoint of someone with no knowledge of the place, from the future attempts to virtually visualize a possible “future” in which the memories of Fukushima as a place have been forgotten.

The artist focused on the sentence “this place resembles Phnom Penh after the Khmer Rouge” found in the imaginary story, and took footage of the remains in Phnom Penh that have become tourist sites, and of the same place in Fukushima that he had visited in the past. The resulting video dismantles the two contexts that have no intrinsic connection between them, but connects them through diverse common traits, evoking questions of artificiality, nature, life and death, and circularity. Portraying issues such as disconnection and connection as well as the fading of memory by employing not a direct approach but rather a firm critical stance, this work will elicit in the viewer the important subject of which memories are wearing thin as time passes.”

Quoted from solo exhibition, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery

from the future
2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

from the future

from the future

Quoted from solo exhibition, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, 2014

“Eugene Kangawa is an artist who has attracted attention for his beautifully airy video works that emphasize process. from the future is a video/photography work that was produced from 2012 to 2013 as part of the “supervision” series, in which Kangawa employs his unique expressive method to elegantly capture demanding subjects that come to light when two different contexts are traverseved.
In this exhibition, the work will be showcased in the form of a three-channel installation.

The process of creating from the future involved inviting to Fukushima a person living abroad who had no information regarding Fukushima and its surroundings, and asking the person to write an imaginary story about “what happened here and when” as well as to record the scenery around. Composed of such materials that present the viewpoint of someone with no knowledge of the place, from the future attempts to virtually visualize a possible “future” in which the memories of Fukushima as a place have been forgotten.”

from the future
2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

“The artist focused on the sentence “this place resembles Phnom Penh after the Khmer Rouge” found in the imaginary story, and took footage of the remains in Phnom Penh that have become tourist sites, and of the same place in Fukushima that he had visited in the past. The resulting video dismantles the two contexts that have no intrinsic connection between them, but connects them through diverse common traits, evoking questions of artificiality, nature, life and death, and circularity. Portraying issues such as disconnection and connection as well as the fading of memory by employing not a direct approach but rather a firm critical stance, this work will elicit in the viewer the important subject of which memories are wearing thin as time passes.”


Special live with Terry Riley: (2014)

In 2014, as a closing event of this exhibition, we had an installation in collaboration with contemporary musician Terry Riley.

from the future
2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

from the future
2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

from the future
2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

from the future
2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

from the future
2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

from the future
2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

from the future
2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

from the future
2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

from the future
2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

from the future
2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

from the future
2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

from the future
2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

from the future
2012-2013, 3 channel audio video installation Video, Still dimensions variable.

“from the future” Special Installation with Terry Riley
2014, 14 channel audio video installation, dimensions variable.

“from the future” Special Installation with Terry Riley
2014, 14 channel audio video installation, dimensions variable.

“from the future” Special Installation with Terry Riley
2014, 14 channel audio video installation, dimensions variable.

“from the future” Special Installation with Terry Riley
2014, 14 channel audio video installation, dimensions variable.