November 19 - January 9, 2022
From the Houston Center for Photography:
“YUE NAKAYAMA. “Houston-based artist and filmmaker Yue Nakayama combines techniques from documentary film, instructional videos, and performance to humorously respond to social problems and the human condition, from procreation and communication to climate crisis and mass migration. Yet, rarely does her work provide simple narratives or answers. Instead, Nakayama relishes in heterogeneous and often absurd stories that employ the perspectives of multiple narrators and speak to the complexity or instability of contemporary identities and belief systems. In a recent video work Recycled Air (2020), for example, Nakayama contemplates modes of survival and empathy under global capitalism and its failures through a series of disjointed non-diegetic commentaries that contemplate a range of topics from the meanings of home and relationships to productivity and work to freedom of various kinds. Nakayama uses humor to not only point out the absurdity of much of contemporary life but also to question the seriousness of most contemporary art. Ultimately, she asks viewers to imagine new ways of identifying with themselves and others, whether humans, animals, objects, or the environment.” – Drew Sawyer”
Reception: November 19, 2021 | 5:30–8 pm
Houston Center for Photography
1441 West Alabama Street
Houston, 77006 TX
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