Language: Japanese/English
Size: 20.0 x 12.5 cm
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Wendelien van Oldenborgh (born 1962 in Rotterdam, lives in Berlin) is one of the leading contemporary artists from the Netherlands, who has represented the Dutch Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, and has been creating moving images and video installations for over 20 years.
In her first solo exhibition in Japan, “unset on-set,” six works, including her most representative moving images to her recent pieces, will be exhibited. The new artworks, created in Japan on the occasion of this exhibition, take texts, primarily by female writers active from the 1920s to the 1940s, that delve into issues such as women’s social status, sexuality, and war, thus exploring what aspects of today’s society they reflect.
The exhibition catalogue includes a number of texts that offer a multifaceted reading of van Oldenborgh’s work, interwoven with installation views as well as stills from the video works. Akiko Wakabayashi’s design, which alternates between video stills and text, examines her thought-provoking works.
Wendelien van Oldenborgh