Meiro Koizumi “Confessions”

Meiro Koizumi “Confessions”

Kyoto Art Center

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A laboratory of the human psyche: two exhibits by a much-discussed visual artist that employ unique forms of narration.
Meiro Koizumi explores human psychology through videos themed around inner memory and emotion. In most of his work, he films the whole process, not only the performance of actors but also theatrical situations such as the instructions he gives to them. When something other than the intended role then appears and possesses the actor, the scene transcends the frame of mere acting and transforms into a bizarre psychological drama that attracts excess. In this sense, Koizumi’s work may be called a ritual of spiritualism through the medium (both a type of media and a psychic) of video.
This exhibition comprises two recent works selected on the titular theme of confessions. “In the State of Amnesia” re-enacts testimony related to the trauma of a Japanese soldier from World War II. “Death Poem for a City” exposes the innermost feelings of various anonymous individuals. In both video installations, the memories and emotions that anchor our identity transfer to others, obscuring their subjects. His work expresses the “excess” that is drawn in by confession, and questions what can or cannot be confessed, and by whom.

Media

• Video and Film

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