- Venue
- Visions Gallery
- Starts
- Tuesday, April 15, 2008
- Ends
- Saturday, April 26, 2008
- Address
- 2-2-9 Horidome-cho Nihonbashi Chou-ku Tokyo Japan Zip 103-0012
- Location
Stella Whalley will be bringing some of the characters from her 2007 artist’s book “Tokyo Tales” to the exhibition ‘TOKORODE’.In her work, she travels to the dark heart of a complex society, where women dress as men to chaperone women, where gangsters loiter on street corners framed against a backdrop of the most futuristic, complex, high ordered but chaotic city in the world. Wild monkeys scramble over rooftops and vending machines dispense live crabs. Her highly personal book references her intriguing work as a performance artist during a residency in Tokyo. Characters such as her male escort visit hostess bars and she mingles with yakuza in one of the most chaotic cities in the world. The book contains a section of all text translated in Japanese. ‘Tokorode,’ will show an installation of a 21metre scroll of drawings on film. Decorative floral patterns, sequins and silver travel across the walls and drawings.Larger than life characters interrupt the sequence of events while tactile flocked images appear on black shinny surfaces.
