中島りか/Rika Nakashima
Email: nakashimalika@gmail.com
Statement
Rika Nakashima studied Fine Art and graduated from the Chelsea College of Arts in London in 2018. Her work takes multiple forms, ranging from site-specific installations and performances to public interventions in urban space. She is interested in notions of liminality and in-betweenness, she explores the liminal relation between the private and public, and investigates the cathartic function of art through gestures which point towards the social construction of bodies and identities. The use of semiotic tools - texts, signs and symbols, serves as a way of visual storytelling and means to reveal intricate connections between the realms of personal experience and public life, and as the means of approaching the beauty of little acts of resistance against dominant regimes of knowledge and power.
中島りかはロンドン芸術大学チェルシー・カレッジ・オブ・アーツで現代美術を学び、2018年に卒業。作品は、サイトスペシフィックなインスタレーションからパフォーマンス、写真、映像、サウンド、都市空間への公共的な介入、多種多様な専門分野を重ね合わせるような制作手法をとる。限界性と中間性の概念に興味を持ち、パブリックとプライベートの間の非二元的な関係を探り、都市空間内での身体とアイデンティティの社会的構築を指し示す身体を通して、アートのカタルシス的機能を模索する。テキスト、サイン、シンボルといった記号論的なツールの使用は、視覚的な物語の語り方として、公的なものと私的なものの領域の間、《閾》空間上の複雑なつながりを明らかにする手段を用いる。また、支配的な知識と権力の体制に対する小さな抵抗の美学にアプローチする手段として機能している。
Online Archives & Exhibition Reviews
＞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 called 脱衣所-(a)place to be naked
2019-2023 Tokyo University of Arts (MA, GA)
2015-2018 Chelsea College of Arts, UAL (BA, Fine Art) – Distinction
2014-2015 Central Saint Martin, UAL (Foundation course) –Distinction
2014 Central Saint Martin, UAL (Orientation course)
1995 Born in Aichi, Japan
Exhibitions / Performance
2023 The Whole World, Watching, 脱衣所-(a)place to be naked, Tokyo
2022 「憑在実験／Hauntological Experiment vol.1」 - datsuijo's Opening Event, 脱衣所-(a)place to be naked, Tokyo
Still Feudal - Yamamoto Handshake, N/A/S/L, Mexico City, Mexico
The Arts of Dissent: Art and Democracy, Chinretsukan, Tokyo
Cherry Blossom Party「桜を見る会」, eitoeiko, Tokyo
YAU TEN, YAU COUNTER, Tokyo
Awakening and Illusion: Dialogues with the Invisible「覚醒と幻惑：見えないものとの対話」, Goethe Institut Tokyo, Tokyo
2021 I tower over my dead body. , Gallery TOH, Tokyo
Stilllive - Performance platform, Goethe Institut Tokyo, Tokyo
Bodies On The Matter, Tomotoshi Art Museum, Tokyo
s.s.s.s., roji-to-hito, Tokyo
2020 A City Dreaming「都市のみる夢」, Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Museum, Tokyo
Maebashi Art Film Festival, Maebashi, Gumma
A Waiting Room, Goethe Institut Tokyo, Tokyo
2019 SGFA(SOUND::GENDER::FEMINISM::ACTIVISM) TOKYO, Chinretsukan, Tokyo
2018 Chelsea College of Arts Degree Show, Hopkins Parade Ground, London
2017 Translations, Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, London
Cross Play, White Conduits Project Gallery, London
Cue 2 Cue, Etcetera Theatre, London
2016 Territories, Cookhouse, London
The Beginning of Truth, Punctum Gallery, London
MEETING POINT, Myatts Field Park, London
2015 Synonyms for exploration, Triangle Space, London
Central Saint Martin Foundation Show, London
2014 JPS Award Exhibition, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo / Kyoto City Museum of Arts, Kyoto
2013 Visual Voice Award Exhibition, University of Arts and Sciences, Nagoya
Curatorial Practices
2022 Hauntological Experiment - 脱衣所-(a)place to be naked, Tokyo
2021 s.s.s.s., roji-to-hito, Tokyo
2020 A Waiting Room, Goethe Institut Tokyo, Tokyo
2020 A City Dreaming「都市のみる夢」, Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Museum, Tokyo
2017 Cue to Cue, Etcetera Theatre, London
2016 The Beginning of Truth, Punctum Gallery, London
2016 MEETING POINT, Myatts Field Park, London
Events
2023 Yeast Yeast at East East, Science Museum, Tokyo
2022 Flat CIty, Bouy, Tokyo
Papers / Books
2021 "A City Dreaming" Exhibition Catalogue
"A Waiting Room - 待つものと待たれるものの間” - GA Journal vol.2
虚像培養芸術論 アートとテレビジョンの想像力 著者：松井茂, FilmArt社 (エピローグに「都市のみる夢」展示批評掲載）
2018 "At the Threshold: The Space in Between" at Chelsea College of Arts Library Collection