Seongeun Lee, Rentaro Kawamoto, Elizabeth Ibarra, Sawako Nasu, Hanna Zelleke Collin, Emumoto, Fu Ning, Takuro Goto

Installation view of “International Dialogue” at biscuit gallery

biscuit gallery (Shibuya, Tokyo), a commercial contemporary art gallery on Shoto Bunkamura Street in Shibuya, is pleased to announce the group exhibition, “International Dialogue.”

With the cooperation of curator Jens Petersen, we will introduce a “dialogue” between Japanese and foreign artists through exhibitions.

Installation view of “International Dialogue” at biscuit gallery

We live in times when humanity rejects science and humanism. People in power fail at taking appropriate measures against man made climate change, and lack understanding that oppression and violence only breeds more violence. Polarization between groups of different values widens, and intellectually based arguments are ignored.

In such a state, it’s imperative to nurture settings where persons of different backgrounds can communicate and get acquainted. The art world should welcome all voices, explore new ideas, and challenge the status quo.

Installation view of “International Dialogue” at biscuit gallery

International Dialogue pairs four Japanese artists with four foreign artists. Each pair works in a similar realm, sharing the form of expression, media, style, motif or motivation. The goal is to create a dialogue between their artworks. How do artists of different cultural backgrounds approach comparable questions? What can we see and learn when diversities meet? biscuit gallery’s three floors in Shibuya, plus the space in Karuizawa, provide four distinct venues for dialogue between the pairs’ creations.

We invite you to experience a conversation between Korean and Japanese threads on the ground floor in Shibuya, expressive figurative paintings from Tokyo welcoming their Mexican peers on the second floor, and on the top floor a philosophical discussion by abstract paintings hailing from Sweden and the southern island of Kyushu. In the Karuizawa gallery, memories are shared between landscape paintings of Yamagata and Taiwan.

Watch how brushstrokes and colours resonate with each other. Listen for light whispers from obscure figures. Feel the warmth shared by connecting textiles. And imagine a world where all humans urge for that same level of mutual understanding.

Jens Petersen

biscuit gallery
biscuit bldg., 1-28-8 Shoto, Shibuya, Tokyo Japan 150-0046

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