Happy and Glorious
©Shino Yanai
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Happy and Glorious
©Shino Yanai
※Photos are for reference only.
Blue Passages
©Shino Yanai
※Photos are for reference only.
Artist Information
Shino Yanai
1979 Born in Nara
2018 Royal College of Art, MA Photography (with Distinction by thesis and Photography Prize)
2013 “WHAT WE SEE” The National Museum of Art (Osaka,Japan)
2013 “Brave New World – re-enchanting utopia” Aomori Museum of Art (Aomori,Japan)
2016 “Blue Passages” White Conduit Projects (London,UK)
2017 “Art Public – Now You See Me” Louvre Museum – Auditrium (Paris,France)
2018 “TBCTV” Somerset House – Lancaster Room (London,UK)
My practice looks at the way that art can offer alternative strategies in the exploration of nationalism. In particular, I am interested in the manner in which art can reanimate the past, bringing the viewer into a fresh relationship with historical trauma.
Selector
Sociologist, Professor at Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
[Comment by Selector]
Shino Yanai is a disquieted artist; she continually engages in dialogues with the deceased, sometimes offering her body to them, like a shaman. It is no coincidence that she has chosen historical figures like Sada Abe and Walter Benjamin as material for her artworks. Interestingly, when summoning spiritual beings, Yanai does not use exorcism but tries to recapture their demonic power as her own to the maximum extent possible. Secretly creating paths connecting this world and the other world—this is an endeavor that revives the artist as a spiritual medium in an age of digital media.