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[Image: Daisuke Ida "For Whom the Bell Tolls?" (2021) Video (loop) ©Daisuke Ida Courtesy of the Artist]

[Image: Xu Bing "Dragonﬂy Eyes" (2017) Video, surveillance camera footage taken from public live-streaming websites (81min) ©Xu Bing Studio Courtesy of the Artist]

[Image: Trevor Paglen "NSA-Tapped Fiber Optic Cable Landing Site, Mastic Beach, New York, United States" (2015) C-Print, 121.9×152.4 cm ©Trevor Paglen Courtesy of the Artist; Altman Siegel, San Francisco; and Pace Gallery, New York]

[Image: Trevor Paglen "A War Without Soldiers (Corpus: Eye Machine) Adversarially Evolved Hallucination" (2017) Dye sublimation print, 81.3×101.6cm ©Trevor Paglen Courtesy of the Artist; Altman Siegel, San Francisco; and Pace Gallery, New York]

[Image: Giorgi Gago Gagozhidze, Hito Steyerl, Miloš Trakilović "Mission Accomplished: Belanciege" (2019) 3 channel HD video (color, sound), exhibition space (47min 23s) Exhibition view at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) Co-produced by Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Hito Steyerl, and Miloš Trakilović Courtesy]

[Image: Maiko Jinushi "A Distant Duet" (2016) HD video (40min) ©Maiko Jinushi Courtesy of Hagiwara Projects]

[Image: Tina Enghoﬀ "Possible Relatives / Man born 1954, deceased, found in home February 14, 2003" (2004) Archival pigment print, 120 × 160 × 5cm ©Tina Enghoﬀ Courtesy of the Artist]

[Image: Jeamin Cha "Chroma-key and Labyrinth" (2013) Single channel HD video (color, sound, 15 min) ©Jeamin Cha Courtesy of the Artist]

[Image: Evan Roth "Since You Were Born" (2023) Custom wallpaper, dimensions variable ©Evan Roth Courtesy of the MOCA Jacksonville Photo by Doug Eng]

[Image: Natsuko Kiura "Park" (2021) Oil on canvas, 97×145.5cm ©Natsuko Kiura Courtesy of the artist Photo ©Eureka]

Universal / Remote

The National Art Center, Tokyo

Finished

Artists

Daisuke Ida, Xu Bing, Trevor Paglen, Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Hito Steyerl, Miloš Trakilović, Maiko Jinushi, Tina Enghoff, Jeamin Cha, Evan Roth, Natsuko Kiura

Universal / Remote is an exhibition that examines various things and phenomena which have entered the spotlight, or come to attention for the first time, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The exhibition is intended to reframe themes often explored in contemporary art thus far, such as global capitalism and digital society, from the two perspectives of worldwide scale (as expressed by the word “universal” as well as the prefix “pan-,” which appears in many words including “pandemic”) and non-face-to-face isolation (as in “remote” work, school and so forth).

Most of the works to be exhibited were produced before 2020 but in conveying comical aspects of the excesses of surveillance and high-tech networks, as well as the profound isolation of human beings, these works seem to grapple head-on with the current era and with the post-COVID world of the future.

Schedule

Mar 6 (Wed) 2024-Jun 3 (Mon) 2024