YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2020 AFTERGLOW The First Announcement of Participating Artists

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Raqs Media Collective

Photo: KATO Hajime

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1 YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE ���� AFTERGLOW | The First Announcement of Participating Artists 2 YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE ���� AFTERGLOW | The First Announcement of Participating Artists Yokohama Triennale 2020 Participating Artists (65 groups / 67 artists)

Birth/Death New First in Birth/Death New First in Artist 1 Venue Artist 1 Venue ※ Year Work Japan ※ Year Work Japan ※2 ※3 ※2 ※3 Haig AIVAZIAN 1980 PLOT 48 Lebohang KGANYE 1990 Yokohama Museum of Art ♦ 〇 〇 〇 〇 Farah AL QASIMI 1991 PLOT 48 KIM Yunchul 1970 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 〇 〇 〇 Morehshin ALLAHYARI 1985 Yokohama Museum of Art Elena KNOX - PLOT 48 〇 Robert ANDREW 1965 Yokohama Museum of Art LAU Wai 1982 PLOT 48 〇 〇 AONO Fumiaki 1968 Yokohama Museum of Art Russ LIGTAS 1985 PLOT 48 〇 〇 ARAI Takashi 1978 Yokohama Museum of Art Make or Break (Rebecca GALLO & Connie ANTHES) 1978/1985 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 〇 〇 Korakrit ARUNANONDCHAI 1986 PLOT 48 Taus MAKHACHEVA 1983 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 〇 〇 Rosa BARBA 1972 Yokohama Museum of Art Kabelo MALATSIE 1987 - ♦ 〇 〇 Taysir BATNIJI 1966 Yokohama Museum of Art Naeem MOHAIEMEN 1969 PLOT 48 〇 〇 Hicham BERRADA 1986 PLOT 48 James NASMYTH 1808-1890 Yokohama Museum of Art ♦ 〇 〇 Nick CAVE 1959 Yokohama Museum of Art PARK Chan-kyong 1965 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 〇 CHEN Zhe 1989 Yokohama Museum of Art Amol K. PATIL 1987 PLOT 48 〇 〇 〇 Jesse DARLING 1981 Yokohama Museum of Art Aluaiy PULIDAN 1971 PLOT 48 〇 〇 〇 Max DE ESTEBAN 1959 Yokohama Museum of Art Renuka RAJIV 1985 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 〇 〇 Eva FÀBREGAS 1988 Yokohama Museum of Art Oscar SANTILLAN 1980 Yokohama Museum of Art/ 〇 〇 PLOT 48 〇 〇 Marianne FAHMY 1992 NYK MARITIME MUSEUM SARKER Protick 1986 Yokohama Museum of Art/ 〇 〇 PLOT 48 〇 〇 Alia FARID 1985 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 SATO Masaharu 1973-2019 Yokohama Museum of Art Farming Architects Est. 2017 PLOT 48 Yokohama Museum of Art/ 〇 〇 SATO Risa 1972 PLOT 48 〇 Ivana FRANKE 1973 Yokohama Museum of Art ♦ 〇 Renu SAVANT 1981 PLOT 48 〇 Rahima GAMBO 1986 PLOT 48 〇 Tsherin SHERPA 1968 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 Zuza GOLIŃSKA 1990 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 〇 SHINTAKU Kanako 1994 - ♦ 〇 Andreas GREINER 1979 PLOT 48 〇 Elias SIME 1968 Yokohama Museum of Art Inti GUERRERO 1983 Yokohama Museum of Art ♦ 〇 〇 Rayyane TABET 1983 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 Nilbar GÜREŞ 1977 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 TAKEMURA Kei 1975 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 Tina HAVELOCK STEVENS 1967 PLOT 48 〇 TAMURA Yuichiro 1977 - ♦ 〇 Joyce HO 1983 PLOT 48 〇 Dennis TAN 1975 PLOT 48 ♦ 〇 Ingela IHRMAN 1985 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 〇 Anton VIDOKLE 1965 PLOT 48 ♦ IIKAWA Takehiro 1981 PLOT 48 〇 Omer WASIM & Saira SHEIKH 1988/1975-2017 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 〇 IIYAMA Yuki 1988 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 Michelle WONG 1987 - ♦ 〇 〇 IWAI Masaru 1975 Yokohama Museum of Art ♦ 〇 Lantian XIE 1988 Yokohama Museum of Art ♦ 〇 〇 IWAMA Asako - Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 ZHANG XU Zhan 1988 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 KANEUJI Teppei 1978 Yokohama Museum of Art 〇 ZHENG Bo 1974 PLOT 48 KAWAKUBO Yoi 1979 PLOT 48 〇 (Total of 65 groups / 67 artists as of April 2020)

1 : Episōdo artist 2 The artists showing new works Including reconstruction / adaptation※ ♦ for YT2020. ※ 3 The artists showing works for the first time in Japan. ※

3 YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE ���� AFTERGLOW | The First Announcement of Participating Artists 4 YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE ���� AFTERGLOW | The First Announcement of Participating Artists Haig AIVAZIAN Morehshin ALLAHYARI Born in 1980 in Beirut, Lebanon. Lives and works in Beirut. Born in 1985 in Tehran, Iran. Lives and works in New York. Acve as an arst and curator, Aivazian works with Allahyari employs digital technologies such as computer installaon, video, drawing, sculpture and performance. He modeling and explores the intersec€on of technology and explores apparatuses of control and sovereignty at work in art ac€vism. Exhibited in this Triennale is her VR installa€on sports, museums and music. For this Triennale, Aivazian She Who Sees The Unknown: Ya’jooj Ma’jooj , retelling the presents an installaon consisng of floodlights and wall stories of Ya’jooj and Ma’jooj, whom according to the drawings made with fitness chalk balls. The work acvates a Qur’an, spread great mischief on earth and represent chaos, history of mass surveillance, from public lighng to so an iron wall was built to detain them, separa€ng them predicve policing. He has held solo and group exhibions from humans. According to the prophecy, the wall would in KADIST in Paris in 2017, MAXXI, the Naonal Museum of crumble one day and their release would precede ‘the end 21st Century Arts in Rome, No‘ngham Contemporary in the of the days’. Allahyari uses the images of monstrous female UK in 2017, Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio in 2018, and queer figures portrayed in Islamic cultures as points of Jameel Arts Centre in UAE and the San Francisco Museum departure to tell new stories in rela€onship to catastrophes of Modern Art in 2019. of our €me. She is the recipient of the leading global She Who Sees The Unknown: Ya'jooj Ma’jooj 1440 SUNSETS PER 24 HOURS thinkers of 2016 award by Foreign Policy magazine, The Joan Mitchell Founda€on Painters & Sculptors Grant, and 2017 2017 The Sundance Ins€tute New Fron€er Interna€onal Courtesy of Morehshin Allahyari © Haig Aivazian, Courtesy of the artist Fellowship in 2019. Photo by Artist

Photo by Matthe Leifheit Courtesy of the artist

Farah AL QASIMI Robert ANDREW Born in 1991 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Lives and works in New Born in 1965 in Perth, Australia. Lives and works in York and Dubai. Brisbane. Al Qasimi works in photography, video and performance Andrew is a descendant of the Yawuru people whose and examines postcolonial structures of power, gender and Country is the lands and waters of the Broome area in the taste in the Gulf Arab states. Her recent commission with Kimberley Region, Western Australia. His work inves€gates Public Art Fund “Back and Forth Disco” is on view around the personal and family histories that have been denied or New York City through May 17, 2020. Her work has been forgo‚en. Andrew’s work speaks to the past yet ar€culates a featured in exhibions at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai; the contemporary rela€onship to his Country—using technology CCS Bard Galleries at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York; to make visible the interconnec€ng spiritual, cultural, Helena Anrather, New York; The Third Line, Dubai; the List physical, and historical rela€onships with the land, waters, Visual Arts Center at MIT, Cambridge; the Museum of sky, and all living things. Programmable machinery is Contemporary Art, Toronto; and the Houston Center for combined with earth pigments, ochres, rocks and soil to Photography. Al Qasimi has parcipated in residencies at mine historical, cultural and personal events that have been the Delfina Foundaon, London and the Skowhegan School buried and distanced by the dominant paradigms of A Connective Reveal — Language of Painng and Sculpture, Maine. A's Reflection western culture. He par€cipated in Ars Electronica in Austria in 2017 and “The Na€onal 2019: New Australian Art” 2019 2019 in 2019. © Robert Andrew, Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane Courtesy of The Third Line and Helena Anrather Photo by AGNSW, Diana Panuccio

5 YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE ���� AFTERGLOW | The First Announcement of Participating Artists 6 YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE ���� AFTERGLOW | The First Announcement of Participating Artists © Korakrit Arunanondchai 2019; courtesy of the artist; Carlos / Ishikawa, London; Clearing, New York; Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok; Photographer Benjamin Bechet (J1, Marseille)

AONO Fumiaki Korakrit ARUNANONDCHAI Born in 1968 in Miyagi, Japan. Lives and works in Miyagi. Born in 1986 in Bangkok, Thailand. Lives and works in New Aono has consistently explored the act of ‘repairing’ in his York. sculptural works since the 1990s. He works with objects Arunanondchai makes films, performances, and such as worn-out furniture and ar‚cles washed ashore and installaons to explore the influences of globalizaon on engages in crea‚ve mending, using his imagina‚on to present-day Thailand. As seen in his film that combines combine their missing parts with di„erent objects. For this pop-culture symbols, such as denim and hip-hop, with Triennale, Aono exhibits a group of sculptures including a tradional Thai values, he examines the issues of identy, new large-scaled, site-specific work. He par‚cipated in the power structure, and mythmaking that take place in and Aichi Triennale in 2013 and “Roppongi Crossing” at the Mori between diƒerent cultures. He parcipated in the Biennale Art Museum in Tokyo in 2019. He also held a solo exhibi‚on of Sydney in 2016 and the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul “AONO FUMIAKI—Mono, sleeping, Koejiyama, voice-over” at Biennial, the Asian Art Biennial in Taiwan, and the the sendai mediatheque in 2019. Singapore Biennale in 2019. Mending, Substitution, Consolidation, Incursion, Serial Arrangement, No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5 (still) “Restoration of a Scrapped Vessel Salvaged from Ishinomaki 2018 after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami -2,” 2016 © Korakrit Arunanondchai 2019, Courtesy of the artist; Carlos / Ishikawa, London; 2016 Clearing, New York; Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok

Photo by Anton Orlov Photo by Sara Masüger

ARAI Takashi Rosa BARBA Born in 1978 in Kanagawa, Japan. Lives and works in Born in 1972 in Agrigento, Italy. Lives and works in Berlin. Kanagawa. Barba is an arst with a sculptural approach to film and the Arai uses daguerreotypes, one of the first photographic ways it arculates space, placing the work and the viewer in process, to create works including the series reflec‚ng his a new relaonship. Her works encompass films, sculptures, interest in nuclear issues. For this Triennale, Arai presents a installaons, text pieces, and publicaons grounded in the new work on the theme of senninbari (one-thousand knots) material and conceptual qualies of cinema. Barba that were s‚tched to pray for the safe return of soldiers on interrogates the industry of cinema with respect to various their way to war. Arai received the Kimura Ihei Award in 2016 forms of staging, such as gesture, genre, informaon and and the Yokohama Cultural Awards: Incen‚ve Prize in 2017. documents, taking them out of the context in which they are His works were exhibited in “Japanese Photography from normally seen and reshaping and represenng them anew. Postwar to Now” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern For this Triennale, Barba will present a 35 mm film work, Art and in the Shanghai Biennale in 2016. Bending to Earth (2015). Barba has exhibited in internaon- ally acclaimed instuons and took part in recent biennales in Berlin (2014), Venice (2009, 2015) and São Paulo (2016). Bending to Earth (installation view) A Maquette for a Multiple Monument for B29: Enola Gay 2015 2016 © Rosa Barba, Courtesy of the artist © Takashi Arai, Courtesy of PGI Photo by Studio Mizuki Tachibana

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Taysir BATNIJI Nick CAVE Born in 1966 in Gaza, Palesne. Lives and works in Paris Born in 1959 in Fulton, Missouri, USA. Lives and works in and Gaza. Chicago. Moving between two countries and cultures, Batniji has Cave first became known for his Soundsuits, which is a developed a mulmedia pracce, including photography, series of wearable sculptures that he first created in video, drawing, installaon and performance. His work response to the incident of Rodney King bea
ng in 1991. His focuses on moving, wandering, impermanence and fragility, colorful and visually rich works con
nue to touch on the reflecng the arst’s personal experience, the history and issues of race, gender, and class in society. For this the present status of his home country. For this Triennale, Triennale, Cave creates a new version of Kine
c Spinner Batniji shows two works made of glass, portraying keys from Forest, a large-scale installa
on which was exhibited as part his house in Gaza and an hourglass tled SuspendedSuspended Time,Time, of his solo exhibi
on “Un
l,” in which he sees as too-often- both of which have been produced as part of the project he ignored maxim, “innocent un
l proven guilty.” “Un
l” has started in June 2006 when he left Gaza without being able been traveling around the world, star
ng at the to return. He parcipated in the Venice Biennale in 2003, Massachuse•s Museum of Contemporary Art in 2016. 2009 and 2011. His solo exhibions are scheduled at the Untitled Kinetic Spinner Forest Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne in France and Jameel Arts Centre in UAE. 2014 2016 © Sfeir-Semler Gallery (Beirut / Hamburg), Courtesy of the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery © Nick Cave, Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery Photo by Sfeir-Semler Gallery Photo by James Prinz

Photo by Aude Wyart

Hicham BERRADA CHEN Zhe Born in 1986 in Casablanca, Morocco. Lives and works in Born in 1989 in Beijing, China. Lives and works in Beijing. Roubaix. Chen is recognized with her autobiographical photographs Nurtured by a dual arsc and scienfic background, addressing the rela
on of physical and psychological Berrada explores visual images of chemical reacon using aspects of self-harm. Her recent project “Towards Evenings: substances like minerals and metals and presents its Six Chapters” is her long-term inves
ga
on of visual and process and resulng phenomena in his sculpture, video, linguis
c representa
ons of dusk. A new subchapter from installaon and performance. He had parcipated in La the project is presented at this Triennale. Chen has Biennale de Lyon, France in 2015, the Biennale of Moving par
cipated in the Shanghai Biennale in 2016 and the Asia Image, Switzerland and the Yinchuan Biennale, China in Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Australia in 2018 2016 and held solo exhibions at Louvre Lens and at and “I know something about love, asian contemporary Hayward Gallery in London in 2019. photography” at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in 2018.

Présage (still) 2007– The Only Question Is How to Endure 2017/2020 © Hicham Berrada, © ADAGP Hicham Berrada, Courtesy of the artist and kamel mennour, Paris/London Photo by Hicham Berrada © Chen Zhe

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Jesse DARLING Eva FÀBREGAS Born in 1981 in Oxford, UK. Lives and works in London and Born in 1988 in Barcelona, Spain. Lives and works in Berlin. London. Darling works across sculpture, installaon, video, drawing, Fàbregas works with large-scale soft sculptures, sounds text, sound and performance. Their work addresses the and immersive installaons and invesgates the realm of mythology of modernity and the condion of being a body the somac and the sensorial experience, quesoning how caught in the structures of the social and material world. our bodies, desires and aects are reshaped through the Darling’s works were exhibited at Tate Britain, London, Les polics of industrial design. She held her solo shows at the Ateliers de Rennes—Contemporary Art Biennale in 2018 Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona in 2017, CentroCentro in and in the Venice Biennale in 2019. Madrid in 2019 and the Kunstverein München in 2019.

Untitled (waiting room poster/municipal hospital series) 2017 Pumping Courtesy of Jesse Darling 2019

Courtesy of Max de Esteban

Max DE ESTEBAN Marianne FAHMY Born in 1959 in Barcelona, Spain. Lives and works in Born in 1992 in Alexandria, Egypt. Lives and works in Barcelona. Alexandria. De Esteban works mostly in photography and video that Fahmy focuses on the histories related to people, examine the human condion under a technological architecture and language and works with installaon and regime. He has been working on the project “Infrastruc- film. Her current work revolves around the history of water, tures” since 2016, focusing on the key infrastructures that where she finds possibilies for creave addions that define the future of human life and their concealed transform prescribed convenonal narraves into a ideological nature. For this Triennale, De Esteban exhibits a boundless account incorporang me into art works. For series of photographs from Twenty Red Lights, the first work this Triennale, Fahmy exhibits a new work in the NYK of the project, which analyzes financial capitalism as the Marime Museum. She was part of the Havana Biennale in dominant contemporary infrastructure for the allocaon of 2019, Dakar Biennale in 2018 and Manifesta 13 in 2020. Her economic resources. He parcipated in a number of films were screened at the Kino der Kunst film fesval in internaonal exhibions including the Cairo Biennale and Munich, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Germany, Contempo- the Havana Biennial in 2019 and held a solo exhibion at rary Image Collecve, Cairo, and Postmasters Gallery, New Atlas Ⅱ (still) the Galician Centre of Contemporary Art in Spain in 2019. York. 2019 Red-Dot Prints from "Twenty Red Lights" © Marianne Fahmy, Courtesy of Marianne Fahmy 2017 Photo by Kareem Hosem

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Alia FARID Ivana FRANKE Born in 1985 in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Lives and works in Born in 1973 in Zagreb, Croaa. Lives and works in Berlin. Kuwait City and San Juan. Grounded in careful examinaons on light and percepon Farid’s work concerns many-faceted themes firmly with focus on perceptual thresholds, Franke often creates enmeshed in the fabric of contemporary life. Lately, she's site responsive installaons that generate organic drawn on her background—her family fled to Puerto Rico connecons between viewers' consciousness and during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in the early 1990s—while environment. She represented Croaa at the Venice also privileging conceptual rigor and ambi‰on over personal Biennale in 2007, parcipated in the Shanghai Biennale in biography. For this Triennale, Farid shows her film work 2016 and held a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary At the Time of the Ebb. Farid has par‰cipated in the Bienal Art Zagreb in 2017. de São Paulo in 2016, the Gwangju Biennale in 2018, the Sharjah Biennial in 2019, and the Lahore Biennale in 2020. She has had solo exhibi‰ons in contemporary art intui‰ons including Por‰kus, Germany and Wi—e de With in the Netherlands. At the Time of the Ebb (still) In the Faraway Past and in the Future 2019 2014 Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Imane Farès © Ivana Franke, Courtesy of INSERT2014 Photo by Alia Farid Photo by Umang Bhattacharyya

Farming Architects Rahima GAMBO Founded by two architects Dung An Viet and Nhan An Born in 1986 in London, UK. Lives and works in Abuja, Thanh in 2017. Based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Nigeria. Focusing on nature, geography, climate and people, Gambo incorporates photography, films and drawings in Farming Architects creates environmentally friendly and her installaon and performance. Her recent works include sustainable architectural works including homes, cafes and the prominent series Tatsuniya, which portrays school girls libraries, like farmers sowing green in the urban fields. The who a’end a school previously a’acked by Boko Haram, an KOI Cafe in Hanoi was selected as Hospitality Architecture Islamic militant group acve in the northeastern and of Building of the Year 2018 by Arch Daily , and VAC-Library northern Nigeria, having the opportunies to resume study as one of the World Greatest Places 2019 by TIME and playful spirit at school. Gambo introduces the first of magazine. the series in this Triennale. She was selected as one of photographers for FOAM Talent Call 2019 and has parcipated in internaonal exhibions including Bamako Encounters—African Biennale of Photography in Mali in Architecture is a miracle universe 2019 and the Lagos Biennial in Nigeria in 2019. Tatsuniya 2019 Courtesy of Farming Architects 2017 Photo by Farming Architects © Rahima Gambo

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Zuza GOLIŃSKA Inti GUERRERO Born in 1990 in Gdańsk, Poland. Lives and works in Warsaw Born in 1983 in Bogotá, Colombia. Lives and works in Hong and London. Kong. Golińska creates installaons and site-specific projects Guerrero is the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of that examine the relaonship between humans, public La­n American Art at Tate, London and Ar­s­c Director of space and architecture and explore the way people behave BAP—bellas artes projects, Manila. For this Triennale, in, and interact with, the social structure and the public Guerrero conducts a curatorial project based on his realm. She was awarded the ArtePrize 2017 by the ArteVue research on the collec­on of the Yokohama Museum of Art. and Delfina Foundaon in 2018 and held a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in the same year.

Run-up 2015 Photo by Marcel Kaczmarek

Photo by Theo Bitzer Photo by Reha Arcan

Andreas GREINER Nilbar GÜREŞ Born in 1979 in Aachen, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin. Born in 1977 in Istanbul, Turkey. Lives and works in Vienna Having studied medicine, anatomy and sculpture, Greiner and Istanbul. incorporates living beings, natural processes and digital art Güreş’s ar­s­c prac­ce spans performance, video, in his sculpture, installaon, photography and video works. sculpture, installa­on and mixed media collage on fabric. His arsc pracces explore the relaonship between She presents her keen insights into social injus­ce, gender humans and nature and its implicaons on natural roles and cultural iden­ty codes and transforms them into sciences, humanies and cultures. He has parcipated in poe­c and humorous figura­ons. Güreş par­cipated in the the Moscow Internaonal Biennale for Young Art in 2014 Bienal de São Paulo and SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul in and held solo shows at the Berlinische Galerie, Germany in 2014 and in the Biennale of Sydney in 2016. 2016 and at the Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Germany in 2019.

From Strings To Dinosaurs Pommel Horse from the Series “Unknown Sports” (detail) 2014 2009 © Andreas Greiner, composition by Tyler Friedman © Nilbar Güreş, Courtesy of Nilbar Güreş and Galerist Photo by Nilbar Güreş

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Tina HAVELOCK STEVENS Ingela IHRMAN Born in 1967 in Sydney, Australia. Lives and works in Born in 1985 in Kalmar, Sweden. Lives and works in Malmö. Sydney. Ihrman explores the relaonship between natural Having a background as a documentary filmmaker and environment and human society by presenng delicately drummer, Havelock Stevens works predominantly in video, crafted objects portraying plants and living creatures in her music, sound, experimental documentary and performance. theatrical installaons. Her broad arsc pracces include The se ng and the landscape of her work are often loaded exhibing art works, performances, wring and scenogra- sites in historical and social contexts, including landscapes phy. Ihrman parcipated in the Gwangju Biennale in 2016 that are considered a spiritual place. In the film work and the Venice Biennale in 2019. exhibited in this Triennale, which the ar€st sees as a self-portrait, Havelock Stevens performs an improvised drum solo in an abandoned airplane in the desert. She par€cipated in the Biennale of Sydney in 2010 and is a winner of the 65th Blake Prize in 2018. She also took part in “The Na€onal 2019: New Australian Art” at the Museum of Ghost Class (still) A Great Seaweed Day (detail) Contemporary Art in New South Wales, Australia. 2015 2019 © Tina Havelock Stevens, Courtesy of Tina Havelock Stevens Courtesy of the artist Photo by Oscar Sanabria Photo by Marte Edvarda Tidslevold

Courtesy of the artist

Joyce HO IIKAWA Takehiro Born in 1983 in Taipei. Lives and works in Taipei. Born in 1981 in Hyogo, Japan. Lives and works in Hyogo. Ho is an interdisciplinary ar€st working in mul€ple media Iikawa focuses on the uncertainty of human cognion and including pain€ng, video and sculpture. In recent years, she the situaons that are often overlooked in society and has worked in performing arts context as a director and a creates videos, photography and installaons that provoke scenographer. In her art works, she modifies familiar audience’s awareness and acve responses. He exhibited objects to make apparent the underlying issues in the given his work in a solo show at the Koganecho Area Management social structure. Exhibited in this Triennale is Balancing Act III, Center in Yokohama in 2015 and in “Roppongi Crossing” at a set of gates that swings like a rocking chair. The audience the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo in 2019. Iikawa parcipated is invited to walk through this unstable structure that in the Yokohama Triennale in 2005 as a member of arst signifies both control and protec€on. She par€cipated in collecve COUMA. the Busan Biennale in 2014, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Australia in 2019 among other interna€onal exhibi€ons. Balancing Act Ⅱ DECORATOR CRAB Arrangement, Adjustment, Movement (installation view) 2019 2018 © Joyce Ho, Courtesy of the artist © Takehiro Iikawa, Courtesy of Amagasaki Art Lab Photo by the artist Photo by Mugyuda Hyogo

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IIYAMA Yuki IWAMA Asako Born in 1988 in Kanagawa, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo. Born in Tokyo. Lives and works in Tokyo and Berlin. Iiyama looks into personal lives, experiences and memories Iwama’s pracce has developed around the idea of the of individuals through interviews and documents and ontology of eang and explores the percepon of presents installaons that examine their relaonships to nourishment examined through the relaonship of nature histories and sociees in a wider context. She held a solo and personhood. She ran the kitchen at Studio Olafur show at the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art in 2015 and Eliasson between 2005 and 2014 and co-created the book exhibited in “Doing history!” at the Fukuoka Art Museum in TheThe KitchenKitchen in 2013 (later published by Phaidon Press in 2016 and “Nice To Meet You Artechnik” at sendai 2016). Iwama parcipated in “Foodscape―We Are What We mediatheque in 2017. Eat” at Arts Maebashi in 2016.

Moomin Family goes on a picnic to see Kannon (still) non-visible (still) 2014 2013 © Yuki Iiyama Photo by Hibiki Miyazawa © Asako Iwama and Derrick Wang

Photo by Kawashima Kotori

IWAI Masaru KANEUJI Teppei Born in 1975 in Kyoto. Lives and works in Tokyo. Born in 1978 in Kyoto. Lives and works in Kyoto. Iwai’s film, installaon and performance focus on the Kaneuji creates works that reveal the relaonship between mundane act of cleaning and cleansing that would reveal its objects and images using techniques based on collage and underlying social and symbolic meanings. As a parcipang assemblage in his sculptures, photographs and films. In arst of one of the “Episōdo” series in the Triennale, Iwai recent years, his arsc pracce has expanded into conducts discussions with the audience and takes acons collaboraons in creang scenography and direcng in response to the cleaning work in the exhibion space, theater and dance. He held a solo show “Melng City / based on his experience as a decontaminaon worker in Empty Forest” at the Yokohama Museum of Art in 2009, Fukushima. He parcipated in the Reborn-Art Fesval in parcipated in the Singapore Biennale in 2011 and the Miyagi in 2017 and “New ‘Arsts Today’ Exhibion 2018 Setouchi Triennale in 2019. He also took part in the Unfixed Perspecves” at the Yokohama Civic Art Gallery in Yokohama Triennale in 2005 as a member of the arst 2018. collecve COUMA.

Drawing for Broom stars White Discharge (Figure / 73) 2020 2003 © Masaru IWAI Courtesy of One and J Gallery

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KAWAKUBO Yoi KIM Yunchul Born in 1979 in Toledo, Spain. Lives and works in London Born in 1970 in Seoul, Korea. Lives and works in Incheon. and Tokyo. Kim is known for his mechanical sculptures that incorpo- Having a background in disabilies sciences and financial rate scienfic and mathemacal theories and also as a trading, Kawakubo uses a wide range of media including composer of electroacousc music. For this Triennale, Kim photography, video, texts in mulple languages and presents Chroma III, which applies knot theory in installaons to present socially crical works that queson mathemacs to structure hundreds of polymer cells, and the topics including the idenes of people and the land Argos, which emits light by capturing muon parcles that and the nature of finances. He held a solo show at the are produced by the collisions of cosmic rays with parcles Shiseido Gallery in Tokyo in 2016 and parcipated in the of the earth's atmosphere. He parcipated in Ars Yokohama Triennale in 2017. Electronica 2018, the Internaonal Triennial of New Media Art in Beijing, 2014, Mediacity Seoul in 2008 and was the winner of the Collide Internaonal Award 2016 by CERN Installation view of Two million years of solitude, (the European Organizaon for Nuclear Research) in cherry blossoms and fifty thousand light years more Switzerland and FACT (Foundaon for Art and Creave Technology) in the UK, which honors those who contribute Chroma 2017 to creave collisions between science and art. Courtesy of Koganecho Area Management Center 2019 Photo by Kasagi Yasuyuki Courtesy of the artist, Photo by the artist

Lebohang KGANYE Elena KNOX Born in 1990 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Lives and Born in Gosford, Australia. Lives and works in Tokyo. works in Johannesburg. Knox’s artworks stage enactments of presence, persona, Kganye works primarily as a photographer and often identy and belief in technoscience futures. They cut incorporates her interest in film, performance and through digital media, performance, sculpture, sound, music installaon in her arsc pracces. Her work combines the and installaon. For this Triennale, Knox develops a special portraits of herself and her family and the historical and edion of her parcipatory project VolcanaVolcana Brainstorm,Brainstorm, social images of South Africa, reflecng the reality while which examines sensuality and survival in self-contained presenng ficonal universe. Kganye is a recipient of Jury biospheres by creang ‘pornography’ for shrimp. She Prize of Coup de Couer Award at Bamako Encounters— parcipated in Koganecho Bazaar 2019 in Yokohama and African Biennale of Photography in Mali in 2015 and a “Future and the Arts” at the Mori Art Museum in 2019, as winner of the sixth edion of the Tokyo Internaonal well as many exhibions outside of Japan. Photography Compeon in 2019.

Ke Sale Teng (I am still here) (still) 2017 Installation view of Volcana Brainstorm © LEBOHANG KGANYE, Courtesy of AFRONOVA GALLERY 2019

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LAU Wai Make or Break (Rebecca GALLO & Connie ANTHES) Born in 1982 in Hong Kong. Lives and works in New York and Hong Kong. Connie ANTHES was born in 1978 in Sydney, Australia. Lau’s works inves
gate how history, fic
on, memory and Rebecca GALLO was born in 1985 in Sydney, Australia. virtuality collided in the process of iden
ty forma
on Both live and work in Sydney. through personal and historical archives, cinema
c imagery, Make or Break is a collaboraon between arsts Connie popular culture and digital media. For this Triennale, Lau Anthes and Rebecca Gallo that began in 2015. They work exhibits her latest video work. She has par
cipated in the across gallery, instuon, fesval and community contexts Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (“Three Shadows Photography to produce a range of process-based projects. These Award Exhibi
on”) in Japan in 2015, Photo Biennale in include creang experimental economies, facilitang Denmark in 2016, the Kuandu Biennale, Taiwan in 2018 and conversaons, circulang ficonal currencies and has exhibited in Europe, Asia and the USA, including the redistribung resources. They engage in projects that Power Sta
on of Art in Shanghai, China, Para Site and Tai expose invisible social structures, labor issues and the Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, and The Museum of arst-audience relaonship. Working with specific Fine Arts, Houston, USA. communies, they queson the social and polical systems Unveilings There is a voice missing that influence lives and livelihood. Make or Break 2018 parcipated in Underbelly Arts Lab and Fesval in Australia 2019 in 2017 and the Kyneton Contemporary Art Triennial in © Make or Break, Courtesy of the Artist Courtesy of LAU WAI, Photo by LAU WAI Australia in 2018. Photo by Zan Wimberley

Courtesy of the artist Photo by Natalia Pokrovskaya

Russ LIGTAS Taus MAKHACHEVA Born in 1985 in Cebu, the Philippines. Lives and works in Born in Moscow, Russia. Lives and works in Moscow, Manila. Russia. Ligtas presents installa
on, performance and choreography Makhacheva is known for performance and video works that reflect conflicts and the reality he confronts in life. In that crically examine what happens when dierent his performances he plays several alter egos that reveal the cultures and tradions come into contact. Having grown up no
ons of self as presence, persona and myth. In recent in Moscow with cultural origins in the Caucasus region of years, his ar
s
c prac
ces explore and examine human Dagestan, her arsc pracce is often informed by her interac
ons and behaviors on social media platforms. personal connecon with the co-exisng worlds of pre- and Ligtas held a solo exhibi
on at the Cultural Center of the post- Soviesaon. For the Triennale, she presents a mixed Philippines in 2017 and was a grantee of the Asian Cultural media installaon, where gymnasc apparatus is deformed Council of the same year. He held a solo performance at the and defunct, a mul channel audio announcing a series of Low Fat Art Fes
val in Thailand in 2019. verbal authoritave clichés used in instuonal and private spaces, quesoning the noons of body, discipline and control in current social paƒerns. Makhacheva has Quantitative Infinity of the Objective Making Planet Blue parcipated in many internaonal biannuals including Moscow (2011 and 2015), Sharjah (2013), Shanghai (2016), 2019 2020 Venice (2017), Riga (2018), Lyon (2019) and Lahore (2020). © Taus Makhacheva, Courtesy of Taus Makhacheva Photo by Dane Terry Photo by Alex Piliugin

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Kabelo MALATSIE James NASMYTH Born in 1987 in Mphakane, South Africa. Lives and works in 1808–1890 Johannesburg. Nasmyth demonstrated talent in art and machine Malatsie is a curator and organizer. She was a director of technology and showed a great interest in astronomy from the Visual Arts Network of South Africa from 2018 to 2019. his young age. After making a fortune by inven
ng the steam Her ongoing curatorial research project explores the hammer for forging iron pieces as a mechanical engineer, exhibi„onary mode as unlikely star„ng points that place he re
red from business to devote himself in astronomical incongruous prac„ces together, to ins„gate other ways of observa
on. He invented the Nasmyth telescope and making and reading the world we inhabit. As an organizer, observed the landscapes of moon, resul
ng in the she is preoccupied with the no„on of autonomy, specifically publica
on of his monumental work The Moon: Considered "temporary autonomous zones" within the African context. as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite in 1874. The book includes his photographs of the plaster model of the moon’s surface created by Nasmyth himself. A group of duplicated photographs from the book are introduced in Group of Lunar Mountains (Ideal Lunar Landscape), this Triennale. Illustration in: The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite / By James Nasmyth and James Carpenter, 4th ed.,1903 (1st edition in 1874) “Astrocurio Collection” by Mr. Tsunoda Tamao

Photo by Keith Park, Courtesy of Kukje Gallery

Naeem MOHAIEMEN PARK Chan-kyong Born in 1969 in London, UK. Works in Dhaka, Bangladesh Born in 1965 in Seoul, Korea. Lives and works in Seoul. and New York. Park works primarily with film as an ar
st and is ac
ve also Mohaiemen directs films, writes essays, and builds as a writer. Exhibited in this Triennale is his film Belated installa„ons. He focuses on vanquished left utopias, flawed Bosal, which is inspired by the fact that the names of Indian decoloniza„on, socialism-Islamism pivots, and shif„ng nuclear tests and Japanese nuclear reactors are derived borders. Presented in this Triennale is his new work set in from Buddhism. In the work he examines the distress India, about the rela„onship between terminal care and caused by nuclear power in society today and associates it dream life. Mohaiemen par„cipated in many exhibi„ons with the Buddhist scripture. He held a solo exhibi
on in the including Chobi Mela, Bangladesh in 2009, the Venice MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2019 at the Museum of Biennale in 2015, documenta 14, Greece/Germany in 2017 Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea in 2019. Park was the and the Lahore Biennale, Pakistan in 2018. He is author of ar
s
c director of SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014. Midnight’s Third Child (Nokta, 2020) and PrisonersPrisoners ofof Shothik I„hash (Kunsthalle Basel, 2014).

Untitled Hashpatal film (still) Belated Bosal (still) 2020 2019 © Naeem Mohaiemen, Courtesy of the artist © Park Chan-kyong, Photo by Hong Cheolki

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Amol K. PATIL Renuka RAJIV Born in 1987 in Mumbai, India. Lives and works in Mumbai. Born in 1985 in Chennai, India. Lives and works in Pa l, a conceptual and performance ar st, observes urban Bangalore. condi ons and working-class communi es through various Rajiv makes art as a medium of communicaon with others. media, including video, kine c sculpture, and installa on. Their work engages with sexuality, gender and family, His works were shown in “Kamarado” at the Stedelijk referencing the relaonship with others. Rajiv’s arsc Museum Amsterdam in 2015, in his solo show at the Asia pracces, centering on drawing and print, extend to include Culture Center in Gwangju in 2017 and in “Reimagine India” arst book, zine, papier-mache and texle in recent years. at The Showroom in London in 2018. For this Triennale, Rajiv makes an installaon comprised of their new work produced on site in Yokohama and a group of works from their recent pracces. Rajiv received the NGV Women’s Associaon Prize in Australia in 2010 and the Emerging Arst Award 2016 from the Foundaon for Indian Contemporary Art in India. What is human becomes animal 2019 Failing The Innocents © Amol K Patil, Courtesy of Amol K Patil Photo by Amol K Patil 2019

Aluaiy PULIDAN Oscar SANTILLAN Born in 1971 in Paridrayan, Sandimen Township, Taiwan. Born in 1980 in Milagro, Ecuador. Lives and works in Den Lives and works in Sandimen. Haag. Born into a noble family of the Paiwan tribe in the A cybernecian, arst, and sci-fi parsan, Sanllan has Southernmost region in Taiwan, Aluaiy Pulidan started collaborated with experts across di—erent disciplines such making art works from the mid-2010s, producing soft as sciensts, philosophers, music composers and sculptures made of colorful fabric inspired by the tradi onal anthropologists in the last decade. His pracces involve tribal costumes she has known since her childhood. Her experimental processes of trying, making, and ruining good work conveys the pulse of tribal women engaging in ideas (and pondering on bad ones at the same me), microscopic work of weaving and embroidering of beads. resulng in works of art that provoke imaginaon. Sanllan Her ar s c prac ce has recently shifted from refined craft exhibits Spacecraft (Venus) , a sculpture made from clay works to large-scaled installa ons. For this Triennale, she that has the same chemical composion of the surface soil shows a body of works, which is introduced outside Taiwan of planet Venus and a new work for this Triennale. He held for the first me. solo exhibions at Wiše de With Center for Contemporary Art in the Netherlands in 2016 and the MUAC (Museo Blooming Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo) of the Naonal Autonomous University of Mexico in 2017 among others. 2019 Spacecraft (Venus) © , Photo by 2018 伊誕創藝視界企業社 王 言度

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SARKER Protick SATO Risa Born in 1986 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Lives and works in Born in Tokyo in 1972. Lives and works in Yokohama. Dhaka. Sato presents her large-scaled soft sculptures, which are at Sarker’s photography and video works explore the once abstract and inmate. She has placed them in public landscapes and the cultures that are disappearing from the spaces both indoors and outdoors to consider the potenal histories and the lives of people in Bangladesh. His of creang communicaons through art works. She has also narraves are rooted on the materiality of me and engaged in a number of workshops to produce collabora- impermanence through eroded lands, colonial spaces and ve works with the audience. Sato parcipated in Rokko family history. In this Triennale, Sarker exhibits a new video Meets Art 2017 in Hyogo, and in 2019, Zou-no-hana Future collage and a series of photographic slides, which Scape Project in Yokohama and Srish Interim 2019, introduces once prosperous film industry of Bangladesh. among others. He parcipated in the Dhaka Art Summit in 2014, the Daegu Photo Biennale in 2016 and the Triennial of Photography Hamburg in 2018. Love Kill I who am empty again today #1 2014—2015 2019 © Sarker Protick, Courtesy of Sarker Protick © Risa Sato, Courtesy of ZOU-NO-HANA TERRACE Photo by Sarker Protick Photo by 427FOTO

© Courtesy of Estate of Masaharu Sato and KEN NAKAHASHI

SATO Masaharu Renu SAVANT 1973‰2019 Born in 1981 in Mumbai, India. Lives and works in Ratnagiri Sato is recognized for his video works presenng realisc and Mumbai. images that evoke somewhat odd percepons, with the use Savant has worked as journalist, researcher and assistant of the animaon technique called “rotoscope,” tracing the director in Mumbai before joining the Film and Television frames of everyday scenery filmed on a video camera. Instute of India as a student of Film Direcon. During her Exhibited in this Triennale is the series of his last painngs me in the instute, she received Special Jury Menon at created with the similar technique to rotoscope, tracing the the Naonal awards in 2012 for her second year film project, actual scenes from his last days. He held a solo show at the Airawat, and won the Golden Lotus for Best Direcon for her Hara Museum in Tokyo in 2016 and parcipated in film, Aaranyak, in 2015 among other awards in film fesvals. “Roppongi Crossing” at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo in She received the Early Career Fellowship from the Tata 2019. Instute of Social Sciences, School for Media and Cultural Studies, in 2014 enabling her to produce a four-hour video documentary chronicle, Many Months In Mirya, which tells the stories of people living on the west coast of India in the Skull Marathi language. The film received the John Abraham (still) Naonal Award for Best Documentary (India) in 2017. MANY MONTHS IN MIRYA 2018 2017 © Estate of Masaharu Sato, Courtesy of KEN NAKAHASHI © Renu Savant, Courtesy of Renu Savant

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Tsherin SHERPA Elias SIME Born in 1968 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Lives and works in Born in 1968 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Lives and works in Kathmandu and Oakland. Addis Ababa. Sherpa studied tradional Tibetan thangka painng with his Sime dislocates the usage and the meaning of everyday father Master Urgen Dorje. He was involved in several materials to transform and assemble them into works of art. thangka and monastery mural painng projects in Nepal. Exhibited in this Triennale is a group of works intricately Sherpa immigrated to California in 1998 and started to composed of computer keyboards, motherboards and develop his own style, using vibrant colors on flat surfaces, electrical wires that constute tableaux-like works as the by reinterpreng tradional tantric mofs, symbols and series “Tightrope.” His major solo exhibion was held at the colors, and explore his identy reflecng his diasporic Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art of the Hamilton experiences. Sherpa has parcipated in numerous College in 2019 and is planning to travel to museums in the exhibions in the USA, Europe and Asia including the Asia USA and Canada. Sime is shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Australia in 2015, Prize 2020. the Kathmandu Triennale in Nepal in 2017 and the Yinchuan Biennale in China in 2018. 54 VIEWS OF WISDOM AND COMPASSION TIGHTROPE: (��) While Observing… 2014 ���� © Tsherin Sherpa, Courtesy of the artist and Rossi and Rossi Gallery © Elias Sime, Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York

Photo by Douglas Friedman

SHINTAKU Kanako Rayyane TABET Born in 1994 in Oita, Japan. Lives and works in Kyoto. Born in 1983 in Achkout, Lebanon. Lives and works in Shintaku paints on her naked body as an act of reassuring Beirut. herself that she is alive and presents the pracce in her Drawing from his personal experience and self-directed photographs and performances. She finished her master in research, Tabet explores stories that oer an alternave Fine and Applied Arts Field, Kyoto University of Art and understanding of major socio-polical events through Design in 2019 and received Marunouchi Prize (Audience individual narraves. For the Triennale, Tabet shows one Prize), Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2019. work from his ongoing series “Fragments,” which began in 2016. In this work, Tabet makes rubbings of fragments of basalt reliefs, excavated in Tell Halaf, Syria by German archeologist Max von Oppenheim with whom Tabet’s great grandfather worked as a secretary in 1929, and reveals the complex and contradictory journey these objects took since their excavaon to arrive in museum collecons across the world. His work was featured in several biennials, and his solo exhibion is currently on view at the Metropolitan Orthostates Museum of Art in New York. 2017— I’m still alive © Rayyane Tabet, Courtesy of the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut / Hamburg 2019 Photo by Jen Ziehe

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TAKEMURA Kei Dennis TAN Born in 1975 in Tokyo. Lives and works in Gunma. Born in 1975 in Singapore. Lives and works in Singapore Takemura’s interest in families, records and things that have and Tokyo. been lost are presented in forms and acts of sewing and Tan modifies, shifts and reassembles everyday items, found embroidering. She is known with the installa
on work, in objects and the surroundings into works of art, quesoning which she covers photographs and drawings under a layer the border of art and everyday life. He combines the of embroidered cloth and the “Renovated Series,” in which elements and creates sculptural works, installaon and she traces and mends the broken part of po˜ery with silk performance and brings fresh visions and observaons to threads. Her recent works explore
me and memories everyday situaons. For this Triennale, Tan presents a intersec
ng the past and the present, using fluorescent silk, bricolage and performance inspired by the experience he which is gene
cally modified with Green fluorescent had on the street of a busy city. He parcipated in “There Protein found in Aequorea Victoria. She par
cipated in the are too many episodes of people coming here...” at NUS Biennale of Sydney in 2006 and “Nagashima Yurie × Museum in Singapore in 2016 and the Singapore Biennale Takemura Kei ‘Now and Then’ ” at the Museum of Modern in 2019. Art, Gunma in 2019 among others. Renovated:Y.N.’s Coffee Cup 2018 © Kei Takemura The case of the ringing bell Photo by Kigure Shinya 2020

Anton Vidokle at NASA Space Center, Houston, 2018 Photo by Toby Kamps

TAMURA Yuichiro Anton VIDOKLE Born in 1977 in Toyama, Japan. Lives and works in Kyoto. Born in 1965 in Moscow, former Soviet Union, now Russia. Tamura’s work centers on installa
ons and performances Lives and works in New York and Berlin. derived from his thorough research and deep insight on Vidokle is an arst and editor of e-flux journal. Recent works exis
ng images and objects. Tamura creates mul
layered include a film trilogy centered on Russian Cosmism narra
ves, containing a mixture of fact and fic
on, based on (2014ˆ2017). For this Triennale, he presents a film ThisThis IsIs a wide range of sources from indigenous histories to Cosmos (2014) form the trilogy and a new work Cizens of well-known popular subjects. His works were exhibited in the Cosmos (2019) that he filmed in Japan and Kiev as a ''BODY/PLAY/POLITICS'' at the Yokohama Museum of Art in connuum of his invesgaon on Cosmism. Vidokle's works 2016 and the Asian Art Biennial in Taiwan in 2019. were shown in dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012, the Shanghai Biennale in 2014, the Venice Biennale in 2015, and the Gwangju Biennale in 2016.

Citizens of the Cosmos (still) Deep Marsh 2019 2013 Courtesy of the artist, Asakusa and Vitamin Creative Space

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Omer WASIM & Saira SHEIKH Lantian XIE Omer Wasim (born in 1988 in Karachi, Pakistan and lives Born in 1988. Lives and works in Dubai, UAE. and works in Karachi) & Saira Sheikh (19752017) Xie makes images, objects, stories, jazz bands, motorcycles, pracced together to reconfigure and re-arculate exisng books, pares, wagers, meengs, interviews, stockpiles, and complacent modes of crical engagement and arsc photocopiers, plasc bags, paper bags, water boŽles, producon in Pakistan. Their projects included ficonal and cigareŽes, ashtrays, taxidermy peacocks, beer, parking factual readings of collected and constructed images and spaces, plasc chairs, ineraries, deliveries, documents, objects to witness, challenge and disrupt unitary readings of compressed air, packing soluons, loose change. Xie's human ecologies, consumpon, value and labor. For this works were shown in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2016, Triennale, Raqs Media Collecve brings their individual the Venice Biennale in 2017, and the Sharjah Biennial in works together for the first me to make visible ideas of 2019. a‘ecve authorship, and how conceptual concerns and circumstanal details allow for the appellaon of their collaborave pracce to connue. In Yokohama, a rare drawing made by Sheikh in 2012 will be installed among Installation view from As the Light Turns recent sculptural and mixed-media works (20182020) by A rumble interrupted our chat (detail) Wasim. 2018 © Omer Wasim, Courtesy of Omer Wasim 2017 Photo by Omer Wasim Courtesy of the artist and Grey Noise, Dubai

Photo by Luke Casey Courtesy of ZHANG XU Zhan & Golden Horse Film Festival

Michelle WONG ZHANG XU Zhan Born in 1987 in Hong Kong. Lives and works in Hong Kong. Born in 1988 in Taipei. Lives and works in Taipei. Wong is a researcher and curator. As a Researcher at Asia Zhang Xu’s work incorporates drawing, hand-made puppets Art Archive, her invesgaon focuses on histories of and dioramas to create stop-moon animaons and exchange and circulaon through exhibions and installaon. Born into a paper-crafng family specialized in periodicals. She works on the archive of the late autodidact making paper sculptures for religious rituals or funerals, he arst Ha Bik Chuen (19252009), who documented and uses paper as materials to produce works depicng the archived over 2,000 exhibions during his lifeme. Wong’s acvies of bizarre creatures, which reflect the social wring has been published in Ambious Alignments: New situaon as symbolized by the decline of his family Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945–1990 (Power business. Zhang Xu introduces his new video installaon in Publicaons and Naonal Gallery Singapore, 2018) and the Triennale. He parcipated in the Shanghai Biennale in Oncurang (OnCurang.org, 2016). She is a 2019 Pernod 2018, the Asian Art Biennial in Taiwan in 2015, and the APT Ricard fellow at Villa Vassilie‘ & Bétonsalon, Paris. She Cinema at the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in independently runs the long term curatorial/collecve Australia in 2012. project Sightlines with arst Wei Leng Tay. Animal Story series 2019—2020 © ZHANG XU Zhan & Project Fulfill Art Space Courtesy of ZHANG XU Zhan & Project Fulfill Art Space

35 YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE ���� AFTERGLOW | The First Announcement of Participating Artists 36 YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE ���� AFTERGLOW | The First Announcement of Participating Artists Yokohama Triennale 2020 Outline

Yokohama Triennale 2020 “Afterglow” will present artworks and projects in ways that will en- courage individuals to pursue their own curiosies, illumine life in their own ways, and par-

Courtesy of the Artist and Edouard Malingue Gallery cipate in a world that co-exists with toxicity. This edion is directed by Raqs Media Collec- ve, a collecve of three arsts based in India. It will include arsts who are presenng in Japan for the first me as well as new commissions and deliver the most excing contempo- rary art to the world from Yokohama.

ZHENG Bo Title Yokohama Triennale 2020 “Afterglow” Born in 1974 in Beijing, China. Lives and works in Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Artistic director Raqs Media Collective In his pracce and teaching, Zheng is commied to mulspecies vibrancy. He invesgates the past and imagines the future from the perspecves of marginalized communies and marginalized plants. He creates weedy Exhibition Dates July 3 - October 11, 2020 gardens, living slogans and eco-queer films to culvate ecological wisdom beyond the end of the world. In this Triennale, Zheng will exhibit the series Pteridophilia,Pteridophilia, Venue Yokohama Museum of Art 3-4-1, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan imagining inmate relaons between queer plants and queer humans. He parcipated in the Shanghai Biennale in PLOT48 4-3-1, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan 2016 and the Taipei Biennial and Manifesta 12 in 2018. He (Minato Mirai 21 Central District Block 48) held a solo exhibion at the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA in 2019. Pteridophilia I There is also a work on exhibit in the following venue: ＊ 2016 NYK MARITIME MUSEUM 3-9, Kaigan-dori, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan Courtesy of the Artist and Edouard Malingue Gallery

Open 10:00 - 18:00 *Admission until 30 minutes before closing time Open until 20:00 on every Friday and Saturday and the last day of the exihibition (Oct. 11.) Open until 21:00 on Oct. 2, 3, 8, 9, 10

Organizers City of Yokohama, Yokohama Arts Foundation, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), The Asahi Shimbun, and Organizing Committee for Yokohama Triennale

《Press Contact》 Yokohama Triennale 2020 Press Office (PRAP Japan, Inc.) Attention: I. Yokozawa (Ms.), M. Hongo (Ms.), K. Masuda (Ms.) ARK Mori Building 33F, P. O. Box 562, 12-32 Akasaka 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-6033 E-MAIL: [email protected] TEL: +81-(0)3-4580-9109 (Weekdays: 10:00-18:00)

《For inquiry about Yokohama Triennale 2020》 Yokohama Triennale Organizing Committee Office Attention: N. Takahashi (Ms.) c/o Yokohama Museum of Art 3-4-1 Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama 220-0012 E-MAIL: [email protected] TEL: +81-(0)45-663-7232 (Weekdays: 10:00-18:00) FAX: +81-(0)45-681-7606

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