Chikako Yamashiro:
Utterance, Pulse
Chikako Yamashiro:
Utterance, Pulse
Chikako Yamashiro treats the human body’s inarticulate expressions—its utterances and pulses—as windows into repressed traumas, hidden histories, and other unseen dimensions of time. This screening programme brings together three films from different stages of Yamashiro’s career. They illuminate analogous experiences across different historical and geographical contexts, from a Japanese veteran’s recollections of the battle of Saipan in Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat (2009), to the excavation of half-buried colonial histories shared between Okinawa and Jeju Island in Mud Man (2016), to an elderly Okinawan man’s inherited imaginations of Belau in Flowers of Belau (2023).
This programme will be followed by a conversation with Yamashiro moderated by Alan Yeung, M+ Associate Curator, Ink Art. The conversation will be held in Japanese and English, with simultaneous interpretation in English.
Chikako Yamashiro. Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat, 2009. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Chikako Yamashiro. Flower of Belau, 2023. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Chikako Yamashiro. Mud Man, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Chikako Yamashiro. Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat, 2009. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Chikako Yamashiro. Flower of Belau, 2023. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Chikako Yamashiro. Mud Man, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Chikako Yamashiro. Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat, 2009. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Chikako Yamashiro. Flower of Belau, 2023. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Chikako Yamashiro. Mud Man, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Chikako Yamashiro. Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat, 2009. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Chikako Yamashiro. Flower of Belau, 2023. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Chikako Yamashiro. Mud Man, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
About the Artist
Chikako Yamashiro (b. 1976, Japan) works in photography, video, and performance to investigate the history, politics, and culture of her homeland, Okinawa. In recent years, she has taken the issue of Okinawa as a universal proposition and has used the overlooked histories and people of the East Asian region as her subject matter. Her activities and thinking focus on the themes of identity, the boundary between life and death, and the inheritance of the memories and experiences of others.
Portrait of Chikako Yamashiro. Photo by Ryudai Takano
Image at top: Chikako Yamashiro. Mud Man, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.