Fiona Tan

Terminology

Jul. 19—Sep. 23, 2014

• Jul. 19—Sep. 23, 2014
• Closed Monday(if Monday is a national holiday or a substitute holiday, it is the next day)
• Admission：Adults ￥900／College Students ￥800／High School and Junior High School Students,Over 65 ￥700

Born in Indonesia of a Chinese-Indonesian father and an Australian mother, Fiona Tan was raised in Australia, and then studied in Germany and the Netherlands. Now based in Amsterdam and active as an artist throughout the world, Tan has earned a strong international reputation with installations that often incorporate archival film and photographic images and that take both documentary and fictional form. Her work delicately probes the questions of how cultural differences, within groups and among individuals, are represented, and how these representations become fixed in memory.
Fiona Tan's work was first shown in Japan in 1998. Since then, Tan's work has been exhibited here repeatedly and a number of her works have their origins in Japan. She has received widespread interest and support for her work, due to the aesthetic consciousness she brings even to the smallest details, and to the deeply contemplative quality of her images.
This is the first full-scale Fiona Tan retrospective to be shown in Tokyo, presenting her early 16 mm film and analog video installations; her acclaimed works at the 2009 Venice Biennale Dutch Pavilion; other principal works that reveal her ongoing development as an artist; and two of her early documentaries, on view in the first-floor Hall. Together, these reveal the world of Fiona Tan and the poetic and critical questions she poses about the essential nature of photography and film. 


The World of Fiona Tan's Moving Images This exhibition is being presented in two venues: the 2nd-floor Galleries and the first-floor Hall. You are invited to watch at your leisure the screening of two Fiona Tan feature films in the first-floor Hall. Tan is a world leader in the field of visual expression, and the films are richly suggestive of the beauty and knowledge that inform her work. These serene films are a must-see, not only for followers of the arts, but for admirers of film as well. 

２F Exhibition Gallery	An Exhibition of Representative Works; Lift　2000 Provenance　2008（First Showing in Japan） Inventory　2012（First Showing in Asia） Disorient　2009（First Showing in Japan） Fiona Tan's Intervew [in japanese]
1F Hall	Film Screenings: Admission and Restrictions Tickets to the exhibition in the second-floor galleries are valid for same-day admission to the screening of two documentaries by Fiona Tan in the first-floor Hall. Note: Admission to screenings is on a first-come, first-served basis. Maximum capacity: 190. Seating is non-reserved. Visitors are permitted to leave the hall at any time. *Please note that entry may be restricted in cases of overcrowding. *Please note that the first-floor screening hall will be closed on Friday, September 12, 2014. Visitors who bring tickets stamped with that date may attend the screening in the first-floor hall on any later date during the remainder of the exhibition.
	《May You Live In Interesting Times》 Documentary film 1997	《Kingdom of Shadows》 Documentary film 2000 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
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Fiona Tan Born in 1966 in Pekan Baru,Indonesia 1988-1992 Gerrit Rietveld Academie,Amsterdam 1996-1997 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunst,Amsterdam Lives and works in the Netherlands Selected Exhibitions Yocohama 2001,International Triennale of Contemporary Art:Mega Wave, Towards a new syntbesis,Yokohama,Japan(2001), Documenta XI,Kasel,Germany(2002), 8th Istanbul Biennale:Poetic Justice,Istanbul,Turkey(2003) ,Disorient,Dutch Pavilion,The 53th Venice Biennale,Venice,Italy(2009) ,Yebisu International Festival for Art Alternative Visions 2010:Serching Songs, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,Tokyo,Japan(2010)

All photos is courtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London; Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

■Organized by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture,Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, The Asahi Shimbun
■With the parronage by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
■Sponsored by Shiseido,Cooperate Member of Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

Events

Artist Talk by Fiona Tan (Japanese-English interpreting)

Jul. 20 (Sun) 14:00～15:30 ［Open13:45(schedule)］
Listener：Okamura Keiko(curator / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography)
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 1F Hall 190 seats
※ If you have stub of the exhibition ticket (on the day enabled), you can join anyone.
※ I will distribute tickets on the first floor reception desk from 10:00 on the day. Numerical order admission seats

Guest Talk (in Japanese)

Aug. 16 (Sat) 16:20～17:20 ［Open16:10(schedule)］
Guest：Kondo Kenichi（Mori Art Museum Curator）
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 1FHall 190 seats

Guided tours (in Japanese)

Aug. 1 (Fri) 14:00～
Aug. 15 (Fri) 14:00～
Sep. 5 (Fri) 14:00～
Sep. 19 (Fri) 14:00～