Demanding a strong awareness towards art that is only closed inside human speculation, Tomoko Konoike’s solo exhibition “Primordial Violence” kept making an inquire to go back to the origin of art, which is the act of creation. We would like to hold “Skin, Needle, Thread, and” being the Vol.3 of that.

Starting with the “Drop curtain of cowhide”, a work reaching up to 24 meters currently generation a reaction, this exhibition will put a focus on the act of “Sew” which what can be seen in many of Konoike’s works. Like how the Homo sapiens invented a tool called “Needle” 50,000 years ago and went on a journey all over the world, sewing has always been a part of us as a handcraft to this day since the creation of heavy winter clothing. On the other hand, it has been looked down upon as something inferior to art, and was put aside as a daily handwork. Still, the sorrow and happiness concealed inside our body will be fully sewed and mended, hiding the power to be unleashed to the outer world in the form of a new voice.

Konoike provokes us by throwing a recursive nonsense to us by stating that, “The act of humans creating and living, is an act going against nature, is primordial violence”. With the texture of the land of Niigata here, the question for art will be thought out with the audience, and sewed.

＜EVENTS＞
Tomoko Konoike   Artist Talk
Date：12/17 (Sat) 14:00− At the exhibition room   Registration not required・Administration ticket needed

Art Complex & Talk “Winter Howling”
By welcoming Fuyuki Yamagawa, it is a moment to make a new somatic sensation appear inside the entire museum by awakening the inner animal voice within us.