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Special Exhibition
Universal / Remote

2024.6.29(Sat) — 9.1(Sun)

Since the late 20th century, people, capital, and information came to move on a global scale. We entered a new phase in the 2010s along with the proliferation of smart devices and issues such as excessive tourism, shifting of industry’s production costs and environmental impact to developing nations, the digital divide and so forth were only worsening as the 2020s dawned. And while the outbreak of a pandemic that recognizes no borders suddenly put the brakes on the movement of people, the limitless flow of capital and information showed no sign of stopping. In fact, it seems we are seeing the true visage of capital and information systems for the first time. The rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless: imbalances in our world are becoming more explicit all the time.
The exhibition title Universal / Remote references prevailing conditions in the 21st century as capital and data flow freely on a global scale. Conveying comical aspects of the excesses of surveillance and high-tech networks, as well as the profound isolation of human beings, works in this exhibition seem to grapple head-on with the current era and with the post-COVID world. The exhibition presents the works of 8 artists and a group of 3 artists that address the state of society in the 21st century as shaped by the conditions described above, focusing on two concepts, “Constant Growth at a Pan-Global Scale” and “The Remote Individual.”
　
Flyer　List of works

Artists

Daisuke Ida, Xu Bing, Trevor Paglen, Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Hito Steyerl, Miloš Trakilović, Maiko Jinushi, Tina Enghoff, Jeamin Cha, Evan Roth, Natsuko Kiura

Daisuke Ida, For Whom the Bell Tolls?, 2021. Video (loop) © Daisuke Ida
Courtesy of the artist

Daisuke Ida

Born in Tottori, Japan in 1987. Lives and works in Tokyo. He earned an MFA in sculpture from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2015 and completed MAD Art Practice in 2016.

Xu Bing, Dragonfly Eyes, 2017. Video, surveillance camera footage taken from public live-streaming websites, 81min
© Xu Bing Studio
Courtesy of the artist

Xu Bing

Born in Chongqing, China in 1955. Lives and works in Beijing and New York. He earned an MFA from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing in 1987.

Showtimes for this film are as below.(81min)
10:30– / 12:00– / 14:00– / 15:30–

*Except for the above time, the making of Dragonfly Eyes will be screened (approx. 10 min).
*Scheduled to be shown four times a day at the museum studio

Trevor Paglen, Mid-Atlantic Crossing (MAC) NSA/GCHQ-Tapped Undersea Cable Atlantic Ocean, 2015. C-Print, 121.9×152.4cm © Trevor Paglen
Courtesy of the artist; Altman Siegel, San Francisco; Pace Gallery, New York

Trevor Paglen

Born in Maryland, USA in 1974. Lives and works in New York and Berlin. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.

Giorgi Gago Gagozhidze, Hito Steyerl, Miloš Trakilović, Mission Accomplished: Belanciege, 2019
3 channel HD video (color, sound), environment (47min 23s)
Exhibition view Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.): Hito Steyerl, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: BELANCIEGE, 2019, video installation, environment, written and co-produced by Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Hito Steyerl, and Miloš Trakilović
Courtesy the artists; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; Esther Schipper, Berlin
Photo © Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) / Jens Ziehe

Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze
Hito Steyerl
Miloš Trakilović

Hito Steyerl
Born in Munich, Germany in 1966. Lives and works in Berlin. She studied documentary film at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image and the University of Television and Film Munich. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2003.
　
Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze
Born in Kutaisi, Georgia in 1983. Lives and works in Berlin. He studied fine arts at the State Academy of Arts in Tbilisi (2001–07) and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague (2008–10), as well as experimental film and video with Hito Steyerl at the Berlin University of the Arts (2012–16).
　
Miloš Trakilović
Born in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1989. Lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam. He studied fine arts at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (2009–12) and experimental film and video with Hito Steyerl at the University of the Arts in Berlin (2012–16).

Maiko Jinushi, A Distant Duet, 2016. HD video, 40min © Maiko Jinushi
Courtesy of HAGIWARA PROJECTS

Maiko Jinushi

Born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1984. Lives and works in Tokyo. She earned an MFA from the Tama Art University, Tokyo, in 2010 and participated in the Jan van Eyck Academie residency in 2019-20.

Tina Enghoff, Possible Relatives / Man born 1954, deceased, found in home February 14, 2003, 2004. Archival pigment print, 120×160×5cm © Tina Enghoff
Courtesy of the artist

Tina Enghoff

Born in Denmark in 1957. Lives and works in Copenhagen. She studied photography at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York.

Jeamin Cha, Chroma-key and Labyrinth, 2013. Single channel HD video (color, sound), 15 min © Jeamin Cha
Courtesy of the artist

Jeamin Cha

Born in South Korea in 1986. Lives and works in Seoul. She earned a BFA from the Korea National University of Arts in 2010 and an M.A. from the Chelsea College of Design and Arts, London, UK, in 2011.

Evan Roth, Since You Were Born, 2023. Custom wallpaper, dimensions variable
Installation view of Since You Were Born at MOCA Jacksonville, 2019 © Evan Roth
Courtesy of the MOCA Jacksonville. Photo by Doug Eng

Evan Roth

Born in Michigan, USA in 1978. Lives and works in Berlin. He holds a B.S. in architecture from the University of Maryland and an MFA in Design & Technology at Parsons.

Natsuko Kiura, Park, 2023
Oil on canvas, 181.8×259cm © Natsuko Kiura
Courtesy of the artist. Photo © EUREKA

Natsuko Kiura

Born in Kagoshima, Japan in 1985. Lives and works in Kagoshima. She earned an MFA from Onomichi City University in Art & Design in 2010.

About the Exhibition Title

This exhibition is a look back, through the lens of contemporary art, at the three years of the pandemic, which abated so recently but is already fading from our collective memory day by day.
Living in these globally interconnected times, it is difficult for us to perceive distance, but spatial and geographical distances can never be negated. During the pandemic, a two-meter distance between people was mandated, this being considered far enough to prevent aerial transmission of the virus. Meanwhile, the imposition of entry restrictions and travel bans revived our awareness of the distance between countries. Slowdowns in logistics reacquainted us, the inhabitants of Earth, with the reality of the planet’s vast distances. The pandemic forced us to recognize how far apart things are, a truth unnoticed or unacknowledged by so many in advanced nations. Many of us adopted remote work, which seemed to resolve or at least mask the distances between us, and as the pandemic waned, we rapidly lost our sense of distance once more.
The title Universal / Remote was devised to encourage us not to forget the perpetually distant realities of the present day. The phrase “universal remote” originally signifies a multi-functional remote control, but dividing it with a slash disrupts the implication of “universal effectiveness” and lays bare the dual aspects of universal (i.e. global) and remote (i.e. distant, contactless). This title conveys the conviction that is vital to remain aware of the sense of distance that came to the foreground during the pandemic, as well as the unchanged reality that we are all living separate lives.

Daisuke Ida, IKAROS, 2021
© Daisuke Ida
Courtesy of the artist

Xu Bing, Dragonfly Eyes, 2017. Video, surveillance camera footage taken from public live-streaming websites, 81min
© Xu Bing Studio
Courtesy of the artist

Trevor Paglen, A War Without Soldiers (Corpus: Eye Machine), Adversarially Evolved Hallucination, 2017 © Trevor Paglen
Courtesy of the artist; Altman Siegel, San Francisco; Pace Gallery, New York

Mission Accomplished: Belanciege, 2019. Written and co-produced by Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Hito Steyerl, and Miloš Trakilović
Installation view of Hito Steyerl at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), 2019
Courtesy of the artists; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; Esther Schipper, Berlin. Photo © Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) / Jens Ziehe

Maiko Jinushi, A Distant Duet, 2016 © Maiko Jinushi, courtesy of HAGIWARA PROJECTS

Tina Enghoff, Possible Relatives / Man born 1922, deceased, found in home May 23 2003, 2004 © Tina Enghoff
Courtesy of the artist

Jeamin Cha, Chroma-key and Labyrinth, 2013 © Jeamin Cha
Courtesy of the artist

Evan Roth, Since You Were Born, 2023, Installation view of Since You Were Born at MOCA Jacksonville, 2019 © Evan Roth
Courtesy of the MOCA Jacksonville. Photo by Doug Eng

Natsuko Kiura, Untitled, 2021
© Natsuko Kiura
Courtesy of the artist. Photo © EUREKA

Information

Exhibition Period
2024.6.29(Sat) — 9.1(Sun)
Opening Hours
10:00–17:00

※Admission until 30 minutes before closing

Venue
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery B, Museum Studio
Access
Closed
Mondays (except July 15, August 12), September 16 and August 13
Admission
Adults 1,300 (1,000) yen, University students 950 (750) yen, High school students and seniors (65 and over) 650 (500) yen
*Price in parentheses is that of advance ticket and a group of 30 or more
*Free for children under Junior High School age

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Organized by
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Under the auspices of
Hiroshima Prefecture, Hiroshima Municipal Board of Education, The Chugoku Shimbun, The Asahi Shimbun, The Mainichi Newspapers, THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN, Japan Broadcasting Corporation Hiroshima Station, RCC BROADCASTING CO.,LTD., TSS-TV CO.,LTD., Hiroshima Television Corporation, Hiroshima Home Television Co.,Ltd., HIROSHIMA FM BROADCASTING CO.,LTD., Onomichi FM Broadcasting Co., Ltd.
Planning support by
The National Art Center Tokyo
Discount
Three Museum Discount

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Catalog

List of Works

[Essay]
Universal / Remote
Jihye Yun

[Conversation]
The Autonomy of Images, or We Always Knew Images Can Kill, but Now Their Fingers are on the Triggers
Hito Steyerl and Trevor Paglen

[Interview]
Art Makes a Change
Tina Enghoff

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