Yuma Kishi Solo Exhibition, Imaginary Bones

Dates｜

Part I  October 17 (Sun) to November 14 (Sun), 2021

Part II November 20 (Sat) to December 18 (Sat), 2021
＊Closed Sundays and Mondays (Open on Public holidays, October 17, November 7 and 14)
＊Closed for Exhibition Changeover from November 15 to 19. 

Venue｜√K Contemporary
Admittance｜Free
Exhibiting Works｜approx. 25
Organizer｜√K Contemporary

Co-operators｜
Curator　 Shin Sumimoto
Spatial Architect　Ken Haga
Art Director　Kento Unemi
Technical Director　Hidemaro Fujinami
Sound　 Tatsuru Takeishi
Facility Support　HATRA
Photographer　Yunosuke Nakayama
Installation Support: Shintaro Takamatsu, SALT, Ryonosuke Ono, Ryo Yumoto and Kai Shimizu

【Now on Display on Artsy & Ocula】

Artsy｜https://www.artsy.net/viewing-room/k-contemporary-yuma-kishi-imaginary-bones
Ocula｜https://ocula.com/art-galleries/k-contemporary/exhibitions/imaginary-bones/

＊COVID-19 Preventative Measures
Please note, depending on the state of COVID-19, details are subject to change.
All visitors will be asked to co-operate with mask-wearing and hand disinfection.

Up until now, much of technology has centered around human intent and its ability to fulfil anthropocentric values. Today, technology continues to grow and, in part, eclipse human intent. To Kishi, the value of Artificial Intelligence (AI) lies, not in their instrumentality, but in their autonomy. Rather, by recognizing their independent world view, Kishi views AI as a cooperative entity, with a different intellect and ability to uniquely render history, images, and other forms of human creation.

Bones give bodies structure and form. Simultaneously, they are one of the earliest tools used by mankind. If civilization began when bones began to be utilized, then perhaps bones should be viewed as tools worthy of commemoration. In Imaginary Bones, Kishi reinterprets the concept of bones through an AI perspective and presents a world of shapes and rules, independent of ours.

In this examination of our existing civilization through its primal origins, Kishi unravels how accelerated development reveals a situation whereby human-made systems have begun to disintegrate from the core.

Curator｜Shin Sumimoto

Born in 1993. Curation/Research Course, Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts graduate. Sumimoto specializes in marketing strategy and curatorial art theory. Past activities include Count the Waves – Visualizing Invisibility (2019, Tokyo, curator), Welcome to Birdhead World Again – Tokyo 2019 (2019, Tokyo, assistant coordinator), Fujisanten3.0 (2020, Tokyo), Soichiro Murata A Walk Through White Shadows (2021, Tokyo) and more.