11/09/2023

The Aga Khan Academies

The Aga Khan Academies have released the teacher's guide, a Well-Being unit : Evolving Identities and Navigating Cultures, featuring the artwork Islands as a source of reflection for a better understanding of our identities (origins) involving art and language (from page 36)

"This Well-Being Unit on identity draws on resources developed through the work of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the collection and exhibitions at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto. It encourages students to reflect on the extent to which human experience is shaped by a range of encounters and experiences, that in turn shape identity (...)"

06/02/2023

Françoise pour l’œuvre contemporaine

Take a look! Artist profile selected to be part of Association Françoise pour l’œuvre contemporaine

Fondée en juin 2015, l’association Françoise pour l’œuvre contemporaine est basée à Feigneux, dans l’Oise. Elle entend défendre le statut des productions artistiques contemporaines en tant que créations originales, mais aussi soutenir les artistes tout au long de leur carrière, notamment en favorisant leur intégration au sein de la société. 

03/20/2023

Costura Poética

Group exhibition Costura Poética (Poetic Sewing) with Via Thorey Art Gallery

From 23 to 25/03/2023
Espaço Taller Zaragoza
Rua Amauri, 62. Itaim. São Paulo Brazil.

02/01/2023

Cultural Conversations: Also the Other

Save the date! February 16 Cultural Conversations: Expanding on Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From

Join us for a series of virtual conversations with our current exhibiting artists of Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From, led by Associate Curator of Adult Programs and Outreach Colleen O’Neill. We will dive deeper into the artists’ work in the exhibition as well as their body of work in relation to their experiences as second and third-generational migrants. Each conversation will be shared as a YouTube video and exhibited on January 26, February 16, and March 9. Participants can register for one, two, or for all three. FREE, registration required.

February 16: “Also the Other” – We talk about what it is like to be both an insider and outsider at the same time and the growth in perspective that arises from this experience.

Artists: Shinpei Takeda, Daniela Edburg, and Erica Kaminishi

01/24/2023

Novos Orientalismos…

Texto de Michiko Okano: A Construção das Relações: Seis Artistas Nipo-brasileiras, publicado em Novos Orientalismos e Micropolíticas Anticoloniais

Resumo: Estudo sobre a arte nipobrasileira (ou nikkei) como uma conexão dialógica entre duas diferentes e distantes espacialidades, o país de origem e o de deslocamento. A interação das relações desenvolvidas (GLISSANT, 2021), considerando-se também a inter-relação de homens e espaços, (KAUFFMAN, 2004), sempre processuais. A reflexão sobre o orientalismo é desenvolvida em diálogo com as vidas e obras de seis artistas mulheres nipo-brasileiras: Tomie Ohtake (1913-2015) e Alina Okinaka (1920-1991), ambas imigrantes pré-guerra; Sachiko Koshikoku (1937-2019) e Shoko Suzuki (1929- ), imigrantes pós-guerra; Erica Kaminishi (1979- ) e Yukie Hori (1979- ), descendentes de japoneses nascidas e criadas no Brasil.

01/24/2023

Orlando Museum of Art

"Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From” is currently on view at Orlando Museum of Art.

The exhibition closes March 20, 2023.

The exhibition, jointly created by Luciano Benetton's Fondazione Imago Mundi and Aga Khan Museum explores the impact of migration on second-generation immigrant artists. The museum worked closely with the Ismaili Council of Florida for over three years to bring this collection of vibrant works to Orlando.
The project features works by 15 artists, representing 25 countries. “Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From” goes beyond simply understanding, coming at a specific historical time, it seeks to challenge nationalism, racism, and exclusionary identity politics. This challenge comes through the celebration of the ability of post-migrant artists to act as cultural mediators, and of diversity not only as an undeniable part of 21st-century social fabric but also as a crucial element for continued artistic production. The representation of reality and the enhancement of its beauty become radical and powerful actions that oppose prejudices.
When one’s identity sits between worlds and is constantly questioned or defined by others, telling personal stories and making oneself visible are political acts. By following the intertwining paths and themes, the viewer is encouraged to consider their own background and the journeys that brought them to where they are today. After all, what does it really mean to be “from” somewhere?

09/15/2022

À Fleur de Mots

L'Orangerie Espace Tourlière
66 Rue d'Estienne d'Orves, 91370 Verrières-le-Buisson
Du 23 septembre au 23 octobre 2022
Ouvert mercredi et vendredi de 15h à 18h et
samedi et dimanche de 15h à 19 h. Entrée libre

07/05/2022

L’Orangerie – Espace Tourlière

Artist residency during Summer 2022 (from 18/07 to 20/09/2022)

Solo exhibition À Fleur de Mots (from 23/09 to 23/10/2022)

66 Rue d’Estienne d’Orves
91370 VERRIÈRES-LE-BUISSON FRANCE

03/24/2022

Art Gallery of Alberta

Coming Soon!! Exhibition Don't Ask Me Where I am From will be shown at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Canada.

"A groundbreaking traveling exhibition of works by second-generation immigrant artists, who explore the dynamics of living between different cultures and the hybrid identities they lead. 

The exhibition has been jointly created by Fondazione Imago Mundi and the Aga Khan Museum. With the rise of immigration as a political issue throughout the world, this project examines the challenges and creativity of a generation that bridges the cultures of their home country and those of their parents. It features works by 15 artists whose stories trace immigration, settlement and integration across the world. 

Organized in partnership with The Aga Khan Museum and Fondazione Imago Mundi. Presented at the Art Gallery of Alberta with the support of the Edmonton Community Foundation."

From April 9 –June 19, 2022

03/07/2022

Japanese Canadian Cultural Center

What's new at the JCCC in 2022!

The permanent participatory artwork All in One, One in All No.01 was released last year at JCCC! The artwork is part of the permanent exhibition, Maru: Immigration Stories at The Moriyama Nikkei Heritage Centre (MNHC). In 2020, the JCCC commissioned Erica Kaminishi for a participatory art installation that explores the theme of immigration, culture, and identity with the title All in one, one in All No. 01. The curator Su Yen Chong explains about it in this video (from 12:44)

Read also a short interview about All in One, One in All No.01

"All in one, one in All brings references of Zen Buddhism, precisely from concepts of inter-being by the monk Thich Nhat Hanh. One of the inter-being principles is “We do not exist independently. We inter-are. Everything relies on everything else in the cosmos in order to manifest — whether a star, a cloud, a flower, a tree, or you and me.”

This project specially planned and elaborated for the JCCC is related to my participatory art projects that have already been exhibited in Japan and in Brazil.

For this project, I planned a large-scale white cloud whose contours allude to a topographic map with its contour lines. Those elements are also present in my other works. The public will be invited to participate in the creative process by drawing and writing with blue pen on white sticky notes in droplets shapes. Then, the filled in sticky notes will be fixed on the surface of the large map-cloud, which at the end will be full of blue droplets.

It is a way of reflecting on how everything is interrelated: the cloud is not formed with just a drop of water. Just as we need each other to build something relevant in this world, we must also think that everything coexists within a natural cycle and we need to take care of. From a simple rain, the earth has enough nutrients for a tree to grow and bear fruit and raw material for us to manufacture the paper, on which we draw…. "