《100 fish (Or before and after of epicure)》/ single channel FullHD video with sound /2014
《100 fish (Or before and after of epicure)》/ single channel FullHD video with sound / 2014
Dualism | Masaru Iwai
08.23 (Fri) - 08.25 (Sun) 08.30 (Fri) - 09.01 (Sun) 09.06 (Fri) - 09.08 (Sun) 09.13 (Fri) - 09.15 (Sun)
Talk Event
09.15（Sun）15:00〜
KIKA gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Tokyo-based artist Masaru Iwai. Through video, photography, and performance, Iwai has focused on the notion of cleaning in our daily lives and the public processes of purification in Japan and abroad. This exhibition will feature Cosmetology on the street which experiments with refuse and beauty on the streets of Berlin and 100 Fishes (Or before and after of epicure) which captures the changes related to food filmed in Georgia’s port city of Batumi. Through his framework of Dualism of a dichotomous worldview, Iwai makes us aware of the boundaries we traverse, and the roles classification lies within our daily routines.
Masaru Iwai
Masaru Iwai (b. 1975, Kyoto) currently lives and works in Tokyo. Utilizing video, performance, and installation, Iwai focuses on the mundanity of cleaning and cleansing to reveal their underlying social and symbolic meanings. Selected exhibitions include Seeing as Though Touching Contemporary Japanese Photography Vol. 19 (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2022), Open Studio Program 83 How to clean up the museum (Fuchu Art Museum, 2022), Yokohama Triennale 2020, Control Diaries (Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, 2020), New “Artists Today” Exhibition Unfixed Perspectives (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, 2018), and Reborn Art Festival 2017.
