Chiyuki Sakagami “Scriptures from the Birds”

“Scriptures from the Birds” is a sequel to “Naturalis Historia” that she made with blue ink on paper last year.
Sakagami pays an homage to the birds, the creature she loves the most on the earth. There are more than 40 drawings at the show.
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Hisaji Hara, Symphony of Time & Light in Caochangdi PhotoSpring, Beijing

Hisaji Hara’s first solo exhibition will be held at +3 gallery coorganized by Three Shadows Photography Art Centre and MEM. The exhibition is held as part of the programs of Caochangdi PhotoSpring 2012, Beijing.
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Yoshio Kitayama “Picture of living/dying”

March 17 – April 15, 2012
Open hours: 12:00 – 20:00 closed on Mondays
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MEM at TOKYO FRONT LINE

February 24 – 26 at 3331 Arts Chiyoda
TOKYO FRONT LINE: official website

Maki Toshima “Meta.Morphos”

February 10 – 26, 2012
Open hours: 12:00 – 20:00 closed on Mondays
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“The Elu[va]sive Japanese Portrait”, lecture by Ayelet Zohar

The Elu[va]sive Japanese Portrait: Repetition, Difference and Multiplicity
Lecturer: Ayelet Zohar
Date: Sunday, January 29, 5:00pm
Place: MEM map
Capacity: 30 persons (first-come)
Language: English
Admission free
Japanese interpreter: Ryosuke Kondo (Culture and Representation Course Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo)

　Dr. Ayelet Zohar is a lecturer at the department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa, the East-Asian Studies dept. at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, as well as an art critic,curator and artist. In 2005, Zohar has curated a major exhibition for the Tikotin Museum ofJapanese Art in Haifa, Israel. The exhibition was titled Postgender: Gender, Sexuality andPerformativity in contemporary Japanese Art. The collection of articles was published under the same title by Cambridge Scholars in 2009. Zohar specializes in Visual Culture, Photographic history, contemporary photograph, video and installation-art.
　We will hold a lecture based on the article, “The Elu[va]sive Japanese Portrait: Repetition, Difference and Multiplicity”, recently published by Zohar in Trans Asia Photography Review. Zohar will talk about a repetition, difference and multiplicity of the portrait in contemporary Japanese photograph. This article is discussion about works of Yasumasa Morimura, Tomoko Sawada, Kozue Takagi, Ryudai Takano and Cao Fei. In addition, it is written about series of “our face” by Ken Kitano whose exhibition being held at MEM.

Link: The Elu[va]sive Japanese Portrait: Repetition, Difference and Multiplicity

Ken Kitano takes part in “élan photographic” at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

Ken Kitano shows seven large size prints from our face: Asia series at a group exhibition, élan photographic, at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography from December 10 to January 29, 2012.
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Ken Kitano “our face project: Asia”

November 26, 2011 – January 29, 2012
Open hours: 12:00 – 20:00 closed on Mondays
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MEM at Paris Photo 2011

Booth Nr. D61    Nov. 10 – 13     Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill 75008 Paris

Iwata Nakayama Portfolio 2010

October 8, Sat. – September 20, Sun.
Open hours: 12:00 – 20:00 closed on Mondays
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