Event
Private View: The Myth of Survival by Rui Matsunaga
09 Sep 2021
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
London, United Kingdom
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Hurry up, we are dreaming, oil on plywood, 20.5x15cm, Rui Matsunaga, 2020
Talk
Rui Matsunaga in conversation with Dr Charlotte Mullins
5 Oct 2021
Regular hours
- Tue, 05 Oct
- 12:00 – 13:00
Timezone: Europe/London
Online
Book your space here: https://dajf.org.uk/exhibitions/the-myth-of-survival-by-rui-matsunaga/rui-matsunaga-in-conversation-with-dr-charlotte-mullins
- Language: English
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In this talk, Rui Matsunaga will discuss with Dr Charlotte Mullins her philosophical interest in animism.
About
Rui Matsunaga’s work combines a western Christian discourse with her Japanese cultural background. It is woven with animism and full of ambiguous stories.
In this talk, the artist will discuss with Dr Charlotte Mullins her philosophical interest in animism, and how the films and manga comics she grew up with strongly influenced the formation of her identity, from which she visualizes her stories and creates parallel worlds to reflect on the context of our current crisis. Matsunaga finds inspiration in Renaissance masterpieces filled with Christian mythology. She will discuss how she has interpreted them into the symbolical and mystical language with which she describes the world.
