Yuki Okumura
Forming nested structures where speeches and actions demonstrate each other, my work explores the possibility of (mis)interpretation from one language to another, the invisible to the visible, and inside to outside, as a means to build paranormal realities regarding self and others, toward alternate ways of interpersonal communication.
“Hisachika Takahashi: From Wide White Space, Antwerp, 1967 to Project Room, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, 2013,” 2013, mixed-medium installation at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; photo by Shogo Matsushiro
"Zenbei's Eyeballs (Telescope ver.)," 2012, HD video, 22 minutes and 7 seconds, film still
"Zenbei's Eyeballs (Telescope ver.)," 2012, installation view at Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, photo by Ikumasa Hayashi
"Jun Yang: A Short Story on Forgetting and Remembering," 2011, HD video, 27 minutes and 39 seconds, film still
"Jun Yang: A Short Story on Forgetting and Remembering," 2011, HD video, 27 minutes and 39 seconds, film still
"Remembering Unknown (Artist's Ghost)," 2012, four video works subtitled by Yuki Okumura (Jun Yang, "A Short Story on Forgetting and Remembering," 2007 / Koki Tanaka, "discussing unknown (his future work)," 2012 / Ryan Gander, "Ghostwriter Subtext (Towards a significantly more plausible interrobang)," 2006 / Simon Fujiwara, Artists’ Book Club: Hakuruberri Fuin No Monogatari," 2010), installation view at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, photo by Kei Okano
"On Kawara's Pure Consciousness, or Many Worlds (and) Interpretation," 2012, performance enacted by nine simultaneous interpreters at National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, photo by Shu Nakagawa
