Gateway Japan

curated by Yuko Waukaume, Ei Kibukawa and Max Presneill

Reception: Saturday 26th March, 6-9pm

As any Americans who have visited the lands of their ancestors know there is a strange disjointed experience where the divisions between cultures, once related, become increasingly disparate and the effects of old or current diasporas display a Darwinian sense of the nature of cultural evolution.

Los Angeles has a large Japanese-American community and the artists who emerge from that community reflect the global nature of art trends, their localized particularities but also their cultural inheritance. This exhibition, in bringing together artists from Japan and the US with a shared historical background, highlight those strands of difference and similarity to explore the realities of this cultural divergence.

Featuring: Masaru Aikawa, Taku Anekawa, Shusuke Ao, Jocelyn Foye, Shingo Francis, Gajin Fujita, Tomoo Gokita, Yuki Hashimoto, Mitsuko Ikeno, Ichiro Irie, Minako Kumagai, Gil Kuno, Nobuhito Nishigawara, Satoshi Saegusa, Keiko Sakamoto, Akira Shikiya, Macha Suzuki, Devon Tsuno, Akihiro Yasugi, Kenichi Yokono, Yuki Yoshida

VideoRow: Grant Stevens, Ian Haig and Jess MacNeil – Australian video works