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My first time contributing to @artsy! ✨✍️

I highlight 10 x formidable Japanese women artists in this article from 39 surveyed in the landmark exhibition Kaihō: Japanese Women Artists from 1945 @mudamlux. Tell me who is your favourite! Link in bio☝🏻 by @yukisumner

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It was so special to see/hear Gozo Yoshimasu perform @serpentineuk this morning … his wife @maryla03 was called upon to join him. They performed together. Yoshimasu is a modern-day shaman, Joseph Beuys move over. So lovely to chat with him. I got a handshake and everything!! taken in Serpentine Galleries by @yukisumner

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My latest article for @nikkeiasia is a review of @gwangjubiennale, enjoy!

Link in bio 👆 by @yukisumner

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Gwangju, South Korea…I was there almost a month ago. I was really unwell but I still enjoyed visiting the city, seeing the biennale. My review is coming out this weekend! Will be sharing it soon…

Thanks to everyone who made the trip fun for me! taken in Gwangju, South Korea by @yukisumner

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10 days ago

Oslo Day 3

I had a day to roam the city freely. First, I visited the studio of the incredible textile artist Elise Storsveen, courtesy of @koro.no. She has her new work hanging on the wall inside a new building by @nordicooa in the new government quarter, just outside prime minister’s office.

I then made my way to @uks1921 (Young Artists’ Society), it’s a very cool space managed by director @miriwizz, followed by a visit to Oslo’s City Hall. I was wowed by its murals…then I walked to @munchmuseum and I was wowed by Munch’s paintings…I realise how his scream painting really doesn’t do any favour to the breadth and depth of his work…

🎵In a Landscape, John Cage (1948) taken in Oslo Norway by @yukisumner

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I’m in Oslo…Day 1 ✨

Will post more tomorrow! by @yukisumner

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2 months ago

Truth is perhaps best presented as unadorned…

That’s what the artist @terencegower seems to be saying with this new sound art installation “Enemies and Rascals” which was created for @artangel_ldn.

You have to go through long corridors and a lot of doors to reach the Original Cell, one of the fire-proof cells that used to store documents perfectly preserved after all these years, where Gower has chosen to install his sound art.

The Victorian building was once the UK’s headquarters of public record office, now UK’s largest university library, called Maughan Library, at @lifeatkings in Chancery Lane.

The artist left the room untouched but worked with actors to create a narrative from transcripts of speeches, declarations and accounts from the period around the battle of Quebec in 1775-1776, during the American war of independence.

You will hear quotes from historical figures, some more famous than others, like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, the founding fathers of the United State of America - they seem to be hungry to grab land rich with resources.

With colleagues from the King’s College London’s Foyle Special Collections Library, Gower has also selected for display rare books and documents inside the Weston Room, not far from the Original Cell. The room was once a chapel, designed by the English architect Iñigo Jones in 1617 - you can still see the original features from that period - the mosaic floor, the stained-glass panels, and the tomb monument.

And don’t forget to check out the plaques representing countries like Canada, Africa, Europa, standing just outside the library…these plaques, created at the end of 19th century, relocated from a building nearby, show people conjured up in the mind of a 19th century plasterer, very funny, very strange indeed.

There is a lot to see and discover here.

Enemies and Rascals is open from Wednesday to Sunday until 16th October.

Don’t miss it. taken in Maughan Library by @yukisumner

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Hanging out with a friend @rig74, seeing art (Christo: Air @gagosian), lunching @koyalondon…

Bliss ✨ taken in London, United Kingdom by @yukisumner

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I’ve seen many of @aiww’s shows and this is one of the best yet.

My review of @aiww’s new show, Button Up! @factory_international is coming up soon.

In the meantime, keep up with your fight for freedom and human dignity.

📸 @yukisumner

The show is open until until 6 September. Don’t miss it! taken in Factory International by @yukisumner

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The sun was eclipsed by my son earlier…it was fun people watching. A memorable day! #eclipse #日食 taken in West Norwood, London by @yukisumner

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In @arch_today this month…

“Yuki Sumner applauds an ‘architectural empathy’ that finds poetry in the awkwardness and rawness in agricultural infrastructure and opts for minimum intervention for maximum effect”
— from the byline

Always nice to see one’s work in print.

Thanks for talking to me and letting me stay ar The Drift @marcus_leeparchitects and @corinnadean_arca ✨

Photos by @danglasser taken in Suffolk by @yukisumner

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