中島りか/Rika Nakashima
Email: nakashimalika@gmail.com
Rika Nakashima studied Fine Art and graduated from the Chelsea College of Arts in London in 2018, prior to which she attended the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2019. 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 non-binary relation between the public and private 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のチェルシー・カレッジ・オブ・アーツで現代美術を学び、2018年に卒業。2019年に東京藝術大学大学院国際芸術創造研究科に入学。中島の作品は、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、都市空間へのパブリックな介入まで、複数の形態をとっています。彼女はリミナリティと中間性の概念に興味を持ち、公的なものと私的なものの間の非二元的な関係を探りながら、身体とアイデンティティの社会的構築を指し示すジェスチャーを通してアートのカタルシス的機能を模索しています。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、視覚的なストーリーの語り方として、個人的な経験と公的な生活の領域の間の複雑なつながりを明らかにする手段として、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しさにアプローチする手段として機能しています。
2019- 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) – Diagnosis, Fine Art Practice
Art Practice
Exhibition / Performance Event
2021 s.s.s.s., roji-to-hito, Tokyo
Bodies On The Matter, Tomotoshi Art Museum, Tokyo
2020 A City Dreaming, Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Museum, Tokyo
Maebashi Art Film Festival, Maebashi, Gumma
A WAITING ROOM, Goethe Institut Tokyo, Tokyo
2019 SGFA TOKYO, Tokyo University of Arts, Tokyo
2018 Chelsea Collage of Arts Degree Show, London
Interim show, Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, London
2017 Translations, Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, London
Cross Play, White Conduits Project Gallery, London
Chelsea Second Year Show, Cookhouse, 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 Practice
2020 A Waiting Room, Goethe Institut Tokyo, Tokyo
2020 A City Dreaming, 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
Paper / Book
2021 "A City Dreaming" Exhibition Catalogue - coming soon
2018 "At the Threshold: The Space in Between" at Chelsea College of Arts Library Collection