Presented by Riyadh Art and the Royal Commission of Riyadh City
November 28 - December 14, 2024
Curated by Dr. Alfredo Cramerotti and Dr. Effat Fadag
Exhibition Website
Role: Artistic Manager, Curatorial Team with Pico International LLC (Official Contractor for Noor Riyadh 2024)
Photographs and text courtesy of Noor Riyadh, Riyadh Art
Jukan Tateisi and Takeshi Yasura, Gravitation, 2024
Jukan Tateisi and Takeshi Yasura’s Gravitation (2024) is a video installation consisting of low-resolution screens that contrast with our ultra-high-resolution media. Based on a joint exhibition of the same name held in 2023 that was co-created with Japanese artist Shoei Matsuda (b. 1986), the latest iteration continues to explore the idea of a falling teacup and saucer as an everyday accident that is transformed in the digital world.Visitors are invited to walk among a collection of segmented LED screens propped up against the walls. Fragments of the broken saucer from the previous edition, which were 3D scanned and digitized, are cast across the panels.
The pieces float gracefully in the virtual space, each pixel on the monitors resembling a distant star in the universe. By deliberately reducing the pixel density in an era of 8K video consumption, the artwork encourages a return to creativity in our physical reality.
Artist: Jukan Tateisi and Takeshi Yasura
Title: Gravitation
Date: 2024
Medium: LED panels, Sound, Porcelain, Wood
Photography: Courtesy of Riyadh Art, Royal Commission of Riyadh City
Press:
Arab News
Jukan Tateisi (b. 1986, US) and Takeshi Yasura (b. 1984, Japan)
. Jukan Tateisi (b. 1986) and Takeshi Yasura (b. 1984) are independent artists exhibiting their collaborative artwork at the Noor Riyadh Festival 2024.
Born in Chicago, US, 1986, Jukan Tateisi explores the dissolution and synthesis of opposing boundaries, such as virtual and real, natural and artificial. Notable works include Beach on Beach, where Tateisi superimposes layers of beach on a beach, To The Fog, a project where Tateisi transmits personal monologues through a public broadcasting system directed at the fog, and In(to)stallation, where Tateisi introduces an exhibition space into a forest. Additionally, Tateisi works across various domains including music, film, performing arts, and food products. Tateisi was selected for the prestigious "New Contemporaries 2021" contemporary art award in the UK. Tateisi holds a Master of Arts degree from the Royal College of Art, UK.
Takeshi Yasura received an MFA in Sculpture from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2018, and another MFA in Fine Art from École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris in 2020. Yasura seeks in his work to recognize the existence of humans, otherliving things, and inanimate objects in order to acknowledge existence as a whole. He also continues to farm and keep bees as part of his practice as an art mediator. In 2018, he participated the “End of Summer” artist-in-residence program in Portland, Oregon. Major exhibitions include “Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living” (Mori Art Museum, 2023 - 2024), “Ecology: Dialogue on Circulations: Ephemeral Anchoring”(Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum, 2024), “Reborn-Art Festival 2021-22” (Miyagi, 2021), and “Salon de Montrouge” (Paris, 2021).