BEHIND THE TERRAIN: Sketches on Imaginative Landscape

Curated by Mika Maruyama & Stephanie Misa

The traveling exhibition Behind the Terrain – Sketches on Imaginative Landscape follows the term landscape through historical and artistic research practices that bring to the fore fictional narratives, political re-imagining and the notion of landscape as never a neutral untouched entity, but rather an empty field unto which to desires are projected.

After exhibitions in Studio Kalahan (Jogjakarta Indonesia, 2016), Nha San Collective (Hanoi, Vietnam, 2017), Koganei Art Spot (Tokyo, Japan 2018), the show continues to examine questions that emerge from the interrelation of the politics of remembrance, memory, as well as individual historicities within critical research and art practices. The focus on landscape, in terms of imaginary narrative as well as politics behind actual terrain, is brought into perspective by artists with different cultural and immigrant backgrounds and their relationship to defining terms like: migration, border, identity, and the landscapes of their practice.

Martha Atienza (NL/PH), Veronika Burger (AT), Ishu Han (CN/JP), Ran Kokubun (JP), mamoru (JP), Maryanto (ID), Ta Minh Duc (VT), Stephanie Misa (PH/AT) , Linh Phuong Nguyen (VT), Elia Nurvista (ID), Agni Saraswati (ID), Eva Engelbert (AT), Jong Ok Ri (KP/JP), Ri Ae Chong (KP/JP), Thuy T. Nguyen (VT/US)