ONLY CONNECT is presenting its latest show at the Creative Centre in Osaka, Japan.
Installation by Yim Sui Fong, Yoko Kawaguchi, Genki Isayama and TIME: Boyang Hou & Kate Conlon.
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Installation view at Creative Center Osaka.
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Directed by Yutaka Inagawa, artist duo Mouhitori (Tamaki Ono and Kiyohito Mikami) and Hitomi Kanemoto (STUDIO NIJI), the ambitious project features 5,000 artworks, from international artists including Michael Lee, Anwar Suhaimi, Taro Furukata and Andrew Stahl. Following its 2017 Singapore show, Drop Beyond Boundaries, this show is the fourth exhibition by the Only Connect collective.
Installation by Andrew Stahl and TIME: Boyang Hou & Kate Conlon.
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Installation by Akira Yasuda and Andrew Stahl.
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The Only Connect collective draws the inspiration for its eponymous exhibition from a line from E.M. Forster’s 1910 novel, Howard’s End. The curators’ interpretation rests on the belief that there is real value to be found in connecting with people with entirely different backgrounds and beliefs to our own, while nonetheless acknowledging that our unavoidably subjective experience means that we will never be able to truly understand the other person.
Installation view at Creative Center Osaka.
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Installation view at Creative Center Osaka.
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The exhibition explores this by bringing together a variety of different artworks, each of which stands alone and independent in the floor grid which maps out the exhibition, while nonetheless working together to contribute to the exhibition’s overall impression.
Installation by Hitoko Urago.
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Installation by Yutaka Inagawa & Kiyohito Mikami.
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In this way the curators’ aim has been to “construct an interdisciplinary platform for contemporary experiments and idea sharing,” in the belief that, as modern lives have become more and more complex, this is the way that art can most constructively have something significant to offer
Installation detail by Izat Arif.
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Installation view at Creative Center Osaka.
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by Hannah Valentine
Only Connect Osaka runs until March 17, 2019
Creative Center Osaka (CCO), 4-1-55 Kitakagaya, Suminoe Ward, Osaka, 559-0011
Creative Center Osaka is open Friday to Sunday 10:30 to 19:00
Participating Artists: Bibah AKHYAR (MY) / Izat ARIF (MY) / Momoko ASANO (JP) / Bakir BAHARUM (MY) / Taro FURUKATA (JP) / Ludovica GIOSCIA (IT) / Chih-Chi HSU (TW) / Yutaka INAGAWA (JP) / Genki ISAYAMA (JP) / Yoko KAWAGUCHI (JP) / Andreas KRESSIG (CH) / Hochoul LEE (JP) / Michael LEE (SG) / MAIX (collective, MY) / Soshi MATSUNOBE (JP) / Kiyohito MIKAMI (JP) / Mouhitori (artist duo, JP) / Rozana MUSA (MY) / ONG Si Hui (SG) / Tamaki ONO (JP) / Abdul Latiff PADZALI (MY) / Ismail RAHIM (MY) / SAI (SG) / João SEGURO (PT) / GOH Chai Seng (MY) / Fiona SEOW (SG) / Andrew STAHL (UK) / Hayato SUGII (JP) /Anwar SUHAIMI (MY) / Shooshie SULAIMAN (MY) / Keisuke TANAKA (JP) / TANG Kwok Hin (HK) / Time: Boyang HOU and Kate CONLON (US) / Morgane TSCHIEMBER (FR) / Silia Ka TUNG (CN) / Hitoko URAGO (JP) / LG WILLIAMS (US) / Akira YASUDA (JP) / YIM Sui Fong (HK)