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Special Exhibition
Tintin Wulia: Things-in-Common
2024.9.21(Sat) — 2025.1.5(Sun)
A major influence on Tintin Wulia’s artistic practice and research has been her ethnic minority Chinese-Balinese origins, as well as the disappearance of her grandfather during the Indonesian mass killing of 1965-66. Having experienced being discriminated since her childhood, Wulia has been interested in boundaries that people created and the wars that people wage to keep these boundaries in place. She has communicated these through multidisciplinary installations and video works. Wulia’s work is based on her personal experiences, but through her practice she has gradually noticed how the “common thing” that surround us can become “Things-in-Common”, connecting people by acquiring an aesthetic element. A project is currently underway to investigate how these aesthetic objects can be linked to social and political change.
This exhibition, Wulia’s first solo exhibition in Japan, will present works from her relatively early period to the present. It will provide an opportunity to experience the evolution of Wulia’s artistic attempts to focus on how personal backgrounds including individual memories can be transformed into collective action and social connections with other people through her works.
Works
(Re)Collection of Togetherness—stage13, 2024, ongoing since 2007
Photo: Marisa Srijunpleang
Courtesy of the Jim Thompson Art Center for the exhibition Nomadic
(Re) Collection of Togetherness
Since 2007, Wulia has been presenting a series of works using hand-made passports varying their structure. The duplicate passports from every country in the world used in this work will continue to grow as part of Wulia's collection. There is no end to the act of collecting them, as the world's borders are constantly changing. Some pages of the passports also show crushed mosquitoes and bloodstains. The passport, which allows international travel if one is able to possess it, also implies a question of belonging that one cannot choose and the possibility of not being able to cross borders depending on the kind (nationality).
Memory is Frail (and Truth Brittle) [detail], 2019 Courtesy of the Artist
Memory is Frail (and Truth Brittle )
The installation consists of 115 drawings and texts, in which representations of space (in geography) and time (in history) are shaped into a looping narrative. It intertwines Wuxia’s personal memories with documentation by others, drawn from various visual arts (e.g. film), questions how our understanding of the world is visually constructed and recorded through memory. It is also an attempt to examine how reality is formed through memory, which is often fragmented.
Liminal Death, 2023
Courtesy of the Artist
Liminal Death
Wulia takes up the ‘mosquito’ as one of the symbols of ‘migration’ and often includes it in her work. This work focuses on the metamorphosis of the mosquito. What she calls ‘liminal death’ refers to the death that occurs at the moment the mosquito larva hatches from its pupal shell, at the surface of the water. This mosquito, preserved in ethanol in its hatching state, overlaps with Wulia's grandfather, who disappeared in Indonesia in 1965 and was never seen again. The death of the grandfather, which no one can be sure of, is ongoing and incomplete, signifying liminal death.
Information
Exhibition Period
2024.9.21(Sat) — 2025.1.5(Sun)
Opening Hours
10:00–17:00
※Admission until 30 minutes before closing
Venue
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, GalleryB-1
Access
Access
Closed
Mondays (except September 23, October 14, November 4), September 24, October 15, November5, and December 27—January 1, 2025
Admission
Adults 1,100 (850) yen, University students 800 (600) yen, High school students and seniors (65 and over) 550 (400) yen
*Price in parentheses is that of advance ticket and a group of 30 or more
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*Price in parentheses is that of advance ticket and a group of 30 or more
[ Advanced Ticket ]
Online Shop 339
Tikect PIA (P Code 687-042)
※Available until September 20
Organized by
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Under the auspices of
Hiroshima Prefecture, Hiroshima Municipal Board of Education, The Chugoku Shimbun, The Asahi Shimbun, The Mainichi Newspapers, THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN, RCC BROADCASTING CO.,LTD., TSS-TV CO.,LTD., Hiroshima Television Corporation, Hiroshima Home Television Co.,Ltd., HIROSHIMA FM BROADCASTING CO.,LTD., Onomichi FM Broadcasting Co., Ltd.
In cooperation with
BAIK ART、Milani Gallery
Supported by
University of Gothenburg (THINGSTIGATE, 101041284, European Research Council)
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Artist Profile
Photo: Daris Jasper/Culture Saving
Tintin Wulia
Born in Denpasar, Indonesia in 1972. Based in Australia,UK and Sweden. Tintin Wulia is a multidisciplinary artist exhibiting internationally, and a Senior Researcher at HDK-Valand ØC Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She explores the intricate power dynamics across societal and geopolitical borders as interfaces through text, video, sound, painting, drawing, dance, installation, performance, and public intervention, tackling these subjects both pragmatically and conceptually.
Her most recent solo show includes Tintin Wulia: Secrets and Tintin Wulia: Disclosures at RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, and Baik Art, Jakarta.
https://tintinwulia.com/
https://linktr.ee/tintinwulia
Archives
Catalog
Price: 2,600円+tax
Size: 298×220mm
Pages: 114
Languages: Bilingual (Japanese-English)
Art Direction & Design: Katsuhisa Nomura (Nomura Design Factory)
Published by: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Naoko Sumi "The Interplay of Movement and Memory in the Works of Tintin Wulia"
Tintin Wulia "Things-in-Common and the Aesthetic Reassembling of Identities: Moments, Momentum, and Change"
Installation View and Notes on Works
Selected Documentation for Open Program "Meeting Point: Encounter, Get to Know, Exchange"
Documentation for Lecture Performance by Tintin Wulia "Dance as Evidence: On Origin, Belonging, and Ownership"
Ariel Heryanto "Racial Discrimination as Paradox—The Case of Chinese Indonesians"
Karen Strassler "Impossible but Necessary: Reflections on Wulia's Things-in-Common and the Work of Memory"
Deborah M.Gordon in Conversation with Tintin Wulia "Tolerance as the Baseline: Collective Behaviour and Citizenship"
Vincent Bevins in Conversation with Tintin Wulia "The Jakarta Method: Patterns and Possibilities in the World System"
List of Works
Biography
Installation View
Videography and Editing: Yasumasa Oda
Produced with the support of Milani Gallery
Produced with the support of Milani Gallery
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