Other Rooms | Shiho Kano, Akiko Hashimoto

Loko Gallery, room 302(Tokyo, Japan)

June 1.-19. 2022

Organized by : Takashi Sawa, Sayako Mizuta
Supported by : Arts Council Tokyo
In Cooperation with : LOKO GALLERY, FRM Inc., Little Barrel

This work by Shiho Kano and Akiko Hashimoto was conceived in 2020, when many art exhibitions had to be canceled or shown to limited numbers of visitors due to the pandemic. It was designed as a “room” that only one person at a time can enter and experience the work in a 90-minute time slot. Themed around “private rooms” and “the sensation of being here but feeling far away,” subjects that both artists have been addressing in their previous work, a variety of objects are arranged across the room, including video panels, drawings, glass bottles and books. The space is charged with a peaceful yet tense atmosphere that makes the visitor sense the presence of others and the world outside, and feels like somebody’s room and nobody’s room at the same time.

Group exhibition “SPRIGON”

Café&Galería PARADA (Tokyo, Japan)

May 7.-19. 2013

“Sense of Reality”

Water and Sculpture Hills ICHIHARA (Chiba, Japan)

July 31-September 26. 2010

This installation features video projections onto two differently sized acrylic panels. In one of them, one can see fruit and leaves in a setting of busily changing colors and lights, and hints of someone doing something. In the other one, the fruit, the table and the curtain are motionless like in a still image, while a knife moves very slowly on a plate. As the movie progresses, the viewer gradually understands what kind of action is being performed here. Motif and camera position are the same in both videos, so the completely different depictions of lively colors on one side, and quiet time on the other, are products of editing and filming technique only.

Solo exhibition

Café&Galería PARADA (Tokyo, Japan)

December 20-27. 2009

sound work:Shiho Kano + Yurihito Watanabe
technical supervision by:KAWASHIMA-LAB

Solo exhibition version of “5 frames” (2008/5-channel video installation)

“IMAGINATION : Vision, Perception and Beyond”

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Tokyo, Japan)

December 20. 2008-February 15. 2009

sound work:Shiho Kano + Yurihito Watanabe
technical supervision by:KAWASHIMA-LAB
in the assistance of:Café&Galería PARADA
supported by:Agency for Cultural Affairs (Japan)

“SEVEN NIGHTS, SEVEN LIGHTS”

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Tokyo, Japan)

February 29. 2008

“Digital Art Festival Tokyo 2008”

Panasonic Center Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

October 24. 2008

image:Shiho KANO
basic sound work:Yurihito WATANABE
sound performance:Sumihisa ARIMA and Yurihito WATANABE(voice)

Solo exhibition

Space Kobo&Tomo (Tokyo, Japan)

July 02-07. 2007

Solo exhibition

Gallery 175 (Seoul, Korea)

May-June 2005

Group exhibition “Enabled Screen”

art space kimura ASK? (Tokyo, Japan)

February 23-March 4. 2004

An identical image appears in projection and on a monitor located between the projector and screen. A repeated zoom in/out from a small hole, similar to a camera obscura, is directed toward a small book. As the shadow of the monitor occludes the image on screen, the book disappears until the zoom returns to its expanded dimensions. (S.K.)

Group exhibition “THIS MORN NO BIRDS CRY”

Gallery Den (Tokyo, Japan)

November 8-25. 2001

I ran three differently edited versions of the film “Rocking Chair” simultaneously on three monitors. While each monitor was independent, I set the installation up so that one could watch all three at the same time. (S.K.)

Solo exhibition

Moris Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

February 12-17. 2001

A video work “White tablecloth” is running as different time lag on five monitors. Each images are very subtly different, but the piano sounds like canon from each monitors dynamically emphasize the difference. (S.K.)