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Back Gallery Opening: Thursday, June 21, 8 pm |
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The term IKEA Living in the title signifies neither an image of middle class living nor the materialism/consumerism in our culture. It is a term that the artist has adopted to "refer to the lifestyle in which the peculiar mentality and problems pertaining to artmaking and the art world do not exist". This deliberative proposition of dichotomous consciousness, which appears to contradict her quotation of our various daily activities in her art practice, is a necessary strategy in re-investigating the significance of yet another activity, artmaking. The do-it-yourself of 'IKEA-like' objects in this installation is intended to function as an index both for the artist and the viewers to contemplate the obscure mechanism behind the designation and perception of artmaking and daily living. |
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"One of the most interesting aspects of this present work is that it
foregrounds the artificiality of the notion "lifestyle" in relation to
both the insidious marketing strategies of the housewares company and to
the production of the subjectivity of the artist."
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Above Images:
Shinobu Akimoto IKEA Living Project Series, 1999-2001 installation at Artcite Inc., Windsor, Ontario photo: courtesy of artist
Shinobu Akimoto
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