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YUMIKO ONO: HOME

Yumiko Ono is a Japanese contemporary artist who based on the Central Europe. She is currently finishing her MgA degree at the VSUP and she will present her diploma work in this exhibition. This is an installation work of never ending jigsaw puzzle game which is used over 260.000 pieces of jigsaw puzzles  which fit in the size of the gallery space. During the exhibition, audience can change the form of the jigsaw puzzles as he/she wants.

The definition of home is not only the home where people actually live but also the place where people belong to, such as institution, company, religion, political party, community of friends, family, and country. This piece of work is a metaphor of the fact that the territory of  people’s ‘home’ is constantly changing by the environment.

artistsYumiko Ono
curatorsDušan Zahoranský
placeKostka gallery
tags
cameraErik Sikora
soundErik Sikora
editingErik Sikora
interviewErik Sikora
categoryReports
published17. 6. 2010
languageČesky / English
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YUMIKO ONO: HOME
Confrontations in public space are becoming more virulent. Protests gain traction, social tension is on the rise. Tension as a reaction to threat, an emotional roller coaster of strong convictions. The truth of convictions is shored up by shared emotional experience. Anger, loss of hope, feelings of remorse, anxiety; the emotional ties of mutuality.
In the video They Read, he gradually and casually introduces several intergenerational pairs. Fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters speak about their origins and ability to speak their “native” languages. Members of the younger generation admit, in fluent, natural Czech or Slovak, that they’re not so confident when speaking the language of their parents – that it’s the “kitchen” dialect of the second generation of immigrants. And it’s these linguistic shifts that the artist sees as a symbol of the rift that appears between him and his parents.