She ate the crumbs // march 2020 // Tokyo

She ate the crumbs Febrero 2020 SZ Bureau

https://szbureau.com/2020/01/31/she-ate-the-crumbs/

CURATING

She Ate the Crumbs: The Other Nature of Women

Dates: March 1st – March 21st, 2020. 12:00 – 17:00.

Closed Mondays and Tuesdays (on appointment)

Venue: HB. Nezu (lkenohata 2-6-12, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan)

Admission: Free

Curated by S_Z

Artists:

    Cendrillon Belanger (France/Canada)

• Cathy Burghi (Uruguay)
• Laura Garcia-Karras (France)
• Luísa Jacinto (Portugal)
• Genevieve Morgan (France)
• Shelly Silver (the U.S.)
• Eiko Soga (Japan)
• Yuan Gun Gun (China)

March 1st

Art in the time of corona v

The awkward pun around Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Love in the Time of  Cholera serves if only to heighten the strained conditions under which  we find ourselves, while we look for a balance between prudence and retreat. As is in the case in many cities around the world, Tokyo has announced the closing of a number of cultural institutions, from concert halls to museums. Private galleries have maintained business hours, and several independent spaces remain open to visitors. In Tokyo, the latter are often located in less immediately central areas, and require using in most instances some mode of public transportation. The weekend of March 1st 2020 was one of openings, and while local communities are currently visible along the streets,  this is less the case for those others who usually make the rounds of cultural venues.

HB Nezu, where ‘she ate the crumbs (the other nature of women) is taking place, finds itself at one end of Ueno, on the Chiyoda line. On the other side are several of the city’s celebrated western art museums, as well as the National Museum (which is temporarily  closing).  Traffic is at a trickle between the two and we find ourselves addressing this context of fluctuating areas of risk.  As curators we remain committed to the exhibition and to the international artists who are taking part in the show.  We do this somewhere between precaution and peace of mind. We will endeavor to make it exist as well on social media as we also focus efforts on having it travel. We are here until March 21st, by which time we will have seen Sakura helping us frame the space.

Acuarelas  y dibujos con ceràmica (2019) Cathy Burghi