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My Voice Would Reach You, 2009
Installation with HD Video / single screen HD video version
16 minutes
edition 2/5

Provenance

2012 Experimenta Biennial of Media Art: Speak to Me Melbourne, Australia

2012 Meiro Koizumi, Recent Works, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos (CAB), Burgos, ES

 

2011 My voice would reach you, LOOP ART FAIR with Annet Gelink Gallery, Barcelona, ES

 

2010 Liverpool Biennial 2010, FACT, Liverpool, UK

 

2009 My Voice Would Reach You-A Survey of the First Ten Years, 2000-2009, Hedreen, Seattle, USA

         MAM Project 009, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP


part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Exhibitions

2015 Trapped Voice Would Dream of Silence, Arts Maebashi, JP

2013, Solo show Projects 99, MoMA, New York

2012 "Experimenta Biennial of Media Art: Speak to Me" Melbourne, Australia

2012 "Meiro Koizumi, Recent Works", Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos (CAB), Burgos, ES

2012 Centro de Arte de Caja de Burgos (CAB), Burgos, ES

2012 Frieze Art Fair, New York

2011 Loop Fair Barcelona

2010 Liverpool Biennial, FACT, Liverpool, UK

2009 Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA

2009 Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP

Literature

2015 Trapped Voice Would Dream of Silence, GENDAIKIKAKUSHITSU PUBLISHERS Co., Ltd.

2013 "One creen, Two Points of View", NYTimes


2012 "MEIRO KOIZUMI. STORIES OF A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY", Centro De Arte Caja De Burgos


2009 "Mam Project 009, Koizumi Meiro", Mori Art Museum

This work from Meiro is a two-part video. The first part features warm footage of a man standing on a street corner talking to his mother on his cell phone and inviting her to a visit a hot spring with him. The next sequence shows the same, but with the actual conversation that took place. In this video installation, the sensibility unique to melodramatic Japanese movies has been distortedly appropriated. A video installation combining two-part video, photography, and a letter. The first part of the video features warm footage of a man standing on a street corner talking to his mother on his cell phone and inviting her to visit a hot spring with him. The next sequence features the same, but with the actual conversation that took place. In this video installation, the sensibility unique to melodramatic Japanese movies has been distortedly appropriated. The project began with me asking the actor to write a letter to his mother who had passed away. I've forcibly inserted an extremely personel sense of 'honne' (true feeling), into the mental mechanism of 'tatemae' (facade) in which a connection with the other is avoided. It was an attempt at a departure from a creative process that involved being holed up in a studio and filming in a way that can be perceived an 'otaku' (nerd) mentality, of avoiding any contact with the outside world.
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