Subbing The Subbing
2016 Made in Bangkok, Thailand
Work format: Video installation (Dimension variable)
Materials: 2 TVs
Introduction:
In Spain, there is a town inhabited by people with the surname Japón, which means Japan in Spanish.
400 years ago a group of Samurai traveled to Europe for some missions.
During their journey, Christianity was prohibited in Japan and some of the Samurais decided to remain to live in Spain to live as Christian. Those named Japón in the Spanish town today are regarded as possible descendants of the Samurai from history.
The work EL JAPONÉS aligns the artist himself as a “Japanese person who just came from Japan” and Mrs. Japón as a “descendant of historically the first migrant from Japan”.
The dialog itself looks like a simple praise of communication but the two juxtaposed "Japanese" people imply and ask different notions such as "nationality", "race" and "immigrant integration".
Special thanks: Mr. and Ms. Japóns whom I met in Coria del Rio
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2022 at Doubutsuen-mae Shopping street, Osaka, Japan / 动物园前商店街(大阪)/ 動物園前商店街(大阪)
Work format: Performance recorded with iphone screen recording / 苹果手机录屏 / iphone画面録画
Materials: tarpaulin / 防水布 / ターポリン(2000 x 3000 mm / 1750 x 1500 mm) , any monitor / 电视监视器 /モニター
Qenji Yoshida is an artist who explores the in-between of the seemingly un-understandable like: between people who don't have a common language, between a man and an animal, or between you and me.
Solo Exhibition
2022 "来日", (under Co-mirroring organized by breaker project) Dobutsuenmae 1st Avenue, Osaka, JP
2020 "In Teleland", Treasure hill international artist village, Taiwan, TW
2016 "理解出来ない is incomprehensible", QUINTA DEL SORDO, Madrid, SP
2016 "The Arts of Translation", BUG Bangkok University Gallery, Rangsit, TH
Duo Exhibition
2017 "Intersection/Tourist trap" with Wantanee Siripattananuntakul(TH)
(identical exhibitions showing the same work for the same duration and time in two different countries)
- Gallery wks., Osaka, JP
- Cartel Artspace. Bangkok. TH
2016 "Vague Distance" with Kim Seop (KR), plan.d. galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
Group Exhibition
2023 "Tokyo Biennale 2023"(with Wantanee Siripattananuntakul), Tokyo, JP
2021 "de-CONSCIENTIZATION :: ถอดจิต ::", Art Centre, Silpakorn University, TH
2021 "arts in Jetlag - Floating in the Buffering", Stamford Art Center, SG
2021 "Mobile Village/移動聚落 - 雲嘉嘉營視覺藝術連線",
Yunling cultural centre, Chiayi cultural gallery, Meiling fine arts museum and Xinying cultural centre, TW
2021 "mobile roots", STOCKWERK, Weimar, DE
2020 "in the era of Asia's Post-LCC", Kyoto Art center, Kyoto, JP
2018 "Art Shower Now", CASO Contemporary Art Space Osaka, Osaka, JP
2018 "2018 Season 2 Residency Artists Exhibition", Taipei International Artist Village, Taipei, TW
2018 "Compiling behaviors, digesting actions", Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo, JP
2018 "The Future of This Land", Akiyoshidai International Artist Village, Yamaguchi, JP
2017 "DELIKADO PELIGROSO", MATADERO MADRID, Madrid, SP
2017 "Either/Or", Atelier 2001, Kobe, JP
2016 "RIVER'16", Atelier 2001, Kobe, JP
2015 "Art Shower 2015", CASO Contemporary Art Space Osaka, Osaka, JP
2015 "Brackish water region", Kitanozaka Gallery, Osaka, JP
2011 "Poetry in Translations", Hackney WickED Art Festival, London, UK
2010 Open studio @ Hackney WickED Art Festival, London, UK
2006 " \(^o^)/", Nolia’s Gallery, London, UK
Performance, festival, event
2020 "Merry-Go-Round", Treasure Hill international Artist Village, Taipei, TW
2020 "co-mirroring", online screening event, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, JP
2012 "Where “I” is"
- Tatsuno-hiranomachi Gallery, Osaka, JP
- SHOUT ABOUT ART, Bangkok, TH
- A work space of Urich Lau, SG
- Film Bar Wa, Seoul, KR
2009 "Open Window Project", Hobrecht Strasse, Berlin, DE
2009 "Exchanging identities" (uncompleted) , Katsura-gawa River, Kyoto, JP, Yodogawa-River, Osaka, JP
2007 "Unknown Happiness", Sahara desert, MA
Artist Talk, Conference, Workshop
2024 Alternative Network Meeting, SEASUN, Nagoya, JP
2024 TASA Annual Meeting, Taitung Art Museum, Taitung, TW
2024 Res Artis Conference 2024 — TAIPEI Interweave the Spectrum: Beyond Collaboration, Taipei, TW
2023 Realizing the Ecosystem of the Arts — Creating the Future & Reflecting the Past /2023 Taiwan Art Space Alliance (TASA) Annual Meeting, Tainan, TW
2022 TRA-TRAVEL / Co-mirroring Artist talk, organized by breaker project / Enokojima Art, Culture and Creative Center, Osaka, JP
2021 The Tension of Invisible Gaze-Cultural Diversity and Inclusivity /2021 Taiwan Art Space Alliance (TASA) Annual Meeting, online
2021 artness meetup, Online/Zoom, Osaka, JP
2020 Pier-2 Waving Waves Community International Art Forum and TASA Annual Meeting , Pier-2 art center, Kaohsiung, TW
2020 Improvisational music daydreaming: (Vol. 1 meditation with unknowns) with heroom, Tadpole Point, Taipei, TW
2019 Presentation: Gap Effect,
Sharing the Field, Open Study Group: Exchanges between Japan and Philippines Through Art, Grand Front Osaka, Osaka, JP
2018 Lecture: National Taipei University of Education - Dept. of Arts & Design, Taipei, TW
2018 Artist talk: Taipei International Artist Village, Taipei, TW
2018 Artist talk: Houmei Chiki Koryu Center organized by Akiyoshidai International Artist Village, Yamaguchi, JP
2016 Lecture: Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, SP
2016 Lecture: Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, SP
2016 Artist talk/presentation: Hybrid (Festival de Espacios de Arte Alternativos de Madrid) , Madrid, SP
2016 Workshop and Artist talk: School of Fine and Applied Arts, BU, Bangkok, TH
Artist in residency, Fellowship, Grant and Award
2020-2021 Breaker Project, Osaka, JP(AIR) as TRA-TRAVEL
2020 Taipei International Artist Village, Taipei, TW (AIR) by the support of Japanese Cultural Ministry (Bunkacho)
2019-2020 Japanese Cultural Ministry (Bunkacho), Abroad Research Fellowship, JP
2019 Grant winner for 3 year project as TRA-TRAVEL, Chishima Foundation for Creative Osaka, Osaka, JP
2019 Grant winner, Arts Support Kansai, JP
2019 Co-program, Kyoto Art Center, JP as TRA-TRAVEL
2018 Taipei International Artist Village, Taipei, TW (AIR)
2018 Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, JP (AIR)
2017 Matadero Madrid / El Ranchito, Madrid, SP (AIR)
2016 Intercambiador Acart, Madrid, SP (AIR)
2016 Japanese Cultural Ministry (Bunkacho), Abroad Research Fellowship, JP
2016 Bangkok University, Bangkok, TH (AIR)
2015 First prize winner, Art Shower 2015, Contemporary Art Space Osaka, JP
2014 - 2015 Instituto Volusiano de Artes, São Paulo, BR (AIR)
Article, interview and publication
2024 interview by Manabu Miki (in JP)
2023 review about Realizing the Ecosystem of the Arts — Creating the Future & Reflecting the Past /2023 Taiwan Art Space Alliance (TASA) Annual Meeting (in CH)
2022 catalogue "Co-mirroring" (in JP / CH / EN)
2022 catalogue "de-CONSCIENTIZATION :: ถอดจิต :: (in TH / EN)
2022 Newspaper article about the exhibition "de-CONSCIENTIZATION :: ถอดจิต :: (in TH)
2022 Artscape interview (in JP)
2021 catalogue "Mobile Village/移動聚落 - 雲嘉嘉營視覺藝術連線" (in CH / EN)
2020 Artlogue (in JP)
2019 Tokyo Arts and Space Annual Report 2018 (in EN / JP)
2018 TRANS 2017-2018, HTML version FLASH version (in EN /JP)
2017 Tokyo Arts and Space Annual Report 2017 (in EN / JP)
2017 DELIKADO PELIGROSO El Ranchito Programa de Residencias Matadero Madrid – AECID (in EN / SP)
2017 Review of "Intersection/Tourist trap" (with a Thai Artist Wantanee Siripattananuntakul) (in JP)
2016 Newspaper ABC de Seville, regarding the project "El Japones, Seville, SP (in SP)
2016 Review of "The Arts of Translation", BUG Bangkok University Gallery, Rangsit, TH (in TH)
Education
2004 - 2006 City and Guilds of London Art School, Post Graduate Diploma Fine Art Painting, UK (uncompleted)
2003 - 2004 University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins, Foundation in Fine Art, UK