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Indepth Arts News: "I dreamt of flying: Noguchi Rika" 2004-04-24 until 2004-06-05 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, , JP
This exhibit will feature about 40 of the artist’s works, including the early To Dive and new large-format prints
up to 100 x 250 cm in size made especially for the exhibit. Her series, Rocket Hill (2001-) was taken at the
Tanegashima Space Center and first shown in a solo exhibition at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum
of Contemporary Art. The present exhibit marks its first appearance at a museum in the Tokyo Metropolitan
area. To Dive (1995) shows a diver in both the sea and a training pool, bearing a weight and swimming underwater
while Rocket Hill depicts a rocket launch site, a place where we see rockets that are about to escape the Earth’s
gravity and fly off into space. Noguchi’s photographs capture the circumstances, places and landscapes of our real
lives with a charm that places them outside the category of documentary or reportage.
We live within a sea of multi-media, but it is photography above all that compels us to reconsider the significance of
“seeing.” Amidst the image proliferation and IT-driven image consumption of today, Noguchi’s work sends out a fresh
message for the twenty-first century.
In June, the artist will hold a solo exhibition at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England.
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