Dear Oblivion – 親愛なる忘却へ

Galerie Michael Janssen is pleased to present Aiko Tezuka’s new exhibition, Dear Oblivion – 親愛なる忘却へ, curated by Sachiko Shoji of the Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan. Dear Oblivion is the artist’s second solo exhibition in the gallery’s space, and it features works created in collaboration with the Textile Lab at Textile Museum in Tilburg (the Netherlands), the Kyoto Costume Institute (KCI), Kawashima Selkon Textiles and Kyoritsu Women‘s University Museum. Tezuka’s creative practice, though grounded in painting, has long found expression in intricate fabric installations and objects that explore themes related to the culture, industry, and history of the global textile enterprise. Processes of weaving and unweaving function to characterize both the artist‘s trademark aesthetic and her particular thematic preoccupations; as she articulates in her artist’s statement, she is “interested in loosening up such readymade nar­ratives to unravel forgotten histories or discover new plotlines,” and in so doing “facilitate the reexamination of the subjective nature of time and the process of metamorphosis.” In Dear Oblivion, Tezuka further explores these ideas with a critical emphasis on the deconstruction, reexamination, and reconstruction of the relationships between past and present, Japan and Western Europe, and art and craft. Concurrent to Dear Oblivion – 親愛なる忘却へ at Galerie Michael Janssen, Tezuka is presenting a near parallel exhi­bition titled Dear Oblivion, at Spiral, an arts and culture center in Tokyo. Although the project is the same, its Tokyo iteration further elaborates Tezuka’s conceptual investigations of East and West, as geographic circumstances and cultural context inevitably change the public’s understanding of the work. - Patrick J. Reed

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