中島りか/Rika Nakashima
Email: nakashimalika@gmail.com
都市における公／私の二項対立という近代理性的・資本主義的な機制を問題視し、限界性の概念とその非二元的な関係、すなわち公的なものと私的なものの領域の間となる「閾」を顕現させるような作品制作を行っている。その対立を生／死、可視／不可視にもなぞらえ、その外側と内側を鑑賞者に彷徨わせるようなインスタレーションを構成する。空間の政治的特性を生かした作品の中では、伝統的儀式行為を参照しながら自作した儀式などを通じて、都市空間への公共的介入が企図されている。特に近年のメイン作品となるサウンドインスタレーションは、音という視認することも遮断することもできない媒体を複数重ね合わせることで、鑑賞者を作品内部に巻き込み、カタルシス的な体験に導き、展示上で散りばめられた都市にありふれた記号的イメージから別な指示対象を幻視させる。また、それはポスト資本主義下における反理性・反近代性の身振りの模索でもある。
I critique the modernist rational and capitalist mechanism of the public/private dichotomy in the urban space and, with the concept of marginality, creates works that reveal their non-dual relationship: the threshold between the public and the private. Likening this opposition to life/death and visible/invisible as well, I compose installations in which the viewers wander between the outside and the inside. In my artworks that typically make use of the political specificity of space, I attempt to intervene publicly in urban space through rituals inspired by traditional ceremonial acts. In particular, my primary focus in recent years have been on the works of sound installation, which engage viewers in a cathartic experience by overlapping multiple sounds together. Neither fully seen nor blocked out, the medium of sound installation allows them to explore the possibilities of signification hidden in the common urban signs arranged throughout the exhibition space, to discover gestures of anti-rationality and anti-modernity under post-capitalism.
Online Archives & Exhibition Reviews
>Rika Nakashima "Keep out of □", TALION Gallery, Tokyo
>中島りか：□より外 @ タリオンギャラリー, Art iT Asia
＞Art Action UK Residency 2021 artist statement for Bodies On The Matter，I tower over my dead body.
＞内と外のふたつの視点から解読する。中島水緒評「I tower over my dead body.」展 美術手帖ウェブ
＞中島りか 個展「I tower over my dead body.」美術手帖ウェブ
＞TOMO都市美術館 中島りか「Bodies On The Matter」
＞Arts in COVID-19「A WAITING ROOM」Goethe institut Tokyo
＞ゼロ地点から向かいます──放蕩娘たちのストリーク 松井茂評「都市のみる夢」展 美術手帖ウェブ
Biography
2022- founded a project space 脱衣所-(a)place to be naked
2019-2023 Tokyo University of Arts (MA, GA)
2015-2018 Chelsea College of Arts, University Arts of London (BA, Fine Art)
2014-2015 Central Saint Martin, University Arts of London (Foundation course)
2014 Central Saint Martin, University Arts of London (Orientation course)
1995 Born in Aichi, Japan
Exhibitons
2024
INTERSTICE, le ventre, Hégenheim
2023
Geist Enclosure, studio ghost, Tokyo
「□より外」Keep Out of □, TALION Gallery, Tokyo *solo show
The Whole World Watching, Datsuijo-(a)place to be naked, Tokyo
2022
Still Feudal - Yamamoto Handshake, N/A/S/L, Mexico City
The Arts of Dissent: Art and Democracy, Chinretsukan, Tokyo
「桜を見る会」Cherry Blossom Party, eitoeiko, Tokyo
2021
Art Action UK Residency 2021 - online exhibition
I tower over my dead body. , Gallery TOH, Tokyo *solo show
Bodies On The Matter, Tomotoshi Art Museum, Tokyo
2020
「都市のみる夢」A City Dreaming, Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Museum, Tokyo
A Waiting Room, Goethe Institut Tokyo, Tokyo
2018
Chelsea Collage of Arts BA Degree show, London
2017
Cross Play, White Conduits Project Gallery, London
2016
The Beginning of Truth, Punctum Gallery, London
Performances & Events
2024
A Green Light Room, Atelier Mondial (Studio 3), Basel
2023
Supermarket, General Museum, Ramania Halal Supermarket, Tokyo
2022
Hauntological Experiment vol.1, Datsuijo-(a)place to be naked, Tokyo
Awakening and Illusion: Dialogues with the Invisible, Goethe Institut Tokyo, Tokyo
2021
Stilllive - Performance Platform, Goethe Institut Tokyo, Tokyo
s.s.s.s., roji-to-hito, Tokyo
2020
Maebashi Art Film Festival 2020, Maebashi, Gumma
A Waiting Room, Goethe Institut Tokyo, Tokyo
2019
SGFA(SOUND::GENDER::FEMINISM::ACTIVISM) TOKYO, Chinretsukan, Tokyo
2017
Cue 2 Cue, Etcetera Theatre, London
2016
Meeting Points, Myatts Field Park, London
Curatorial Practices
2024
INTERSTICE, le ventre, Hégenheim
2023
The Whole World Watching, 脱衣所-(a) place to be naked
Geist Enclosure, studio ghost
2022-
Hauntological Experiment vol.1, 脱衣所-(a) place to be naked, Tokyo
Project space 脱衣所-(a)place to be naked, Tokyo
2021-2022
s.s.s.s., roji-to-hito, Tokyo
2020
A Waiting Room, Goethe Institut Tokyo, Tokyo
「都市のみる夢」A City Dreaming, Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Museum, Tokyo
2017
Cue 2 Cue, Etcetera Theatre, London
2016
Meeting Points, Myatts Field Park, London
Writings & books
2022
City /Spirit / Body - Master’s Thesis, Tokyo University of Arts (GA)
2021
A City Dreaming - Exhibition Catalogue
A Waiting Room - GA Journal vol.2
2018
At the Threshold: The Space in Between - Chelsea College of Arts Library
Residency
2024
Atelier Mondial (Basel), TOKAS residency program 2024
2023
6okken - Experimental Camp 2023 (Yamanashi)
2021
Art Action UK Residency 2021 - online (London)
Grants & Honors
2023
Bijyutsutecho - Best 3 Exhibitions in 2023 selected by Mino Nakajima
Forbes Japan 30 under 30 2023 - Art & Style & Social
2021
TOKYO ARTS COUNCIL - First Startup Grant
2020
The Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences
The Asahi Shimbun Foundation