Voluta - Camden Art Centre

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Date 6 Jul/16 Sep 2018

Following her residency at Camden Art Centre in 2016, Yuko Mohri returned with a new installation.

The exhibition orchestrated relations between electromagnetic force-fields, patterns of light moving through water and a reconfigured Yamaha reed organ from 1934. Developed responsively to the architecture and surrounding environment of the galleries, Mohri’s audio-spatial composition revealed the interconnectedness of man-made and natural processes, inviting non-human agents and chance factors to determine the score.

In this new commission, error, improvisation and feedback figured into an acoustic environment that mapped shifting relationships between material things and conceptual propositions. Music and sound are central to Mohri’s practice. Her involvement with the experimental music scene in Japan included collaborations with Otomo Yoshihide and the internationally acclaimed composer, pianist and electronic musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. As part of Voluta, sound art pioneer Akio Suzuki performed live in the gallery.

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Installation view of Yuko Mohri: Voluta, at Camden Art Centre, 2018. Photo: Damian Griffiths

Yuko Mohri, Untitled, 2018. Courtesy the artist

Yuko Mohri, Voluta, 2017. Installation view at MOT Satelite, 2017. Photo: Haruyuki Shirai. Courtesy the artist

The Artist

Yuko Mohri (b. 1980, Kanagawa, Japan) is an artist whose installations detect invisible and intangible forces such as magnetism, gravity and light. In 2015, Mohri received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council for a residency in New York. She has participated in a number of exhibitions both in Japan and abroad, including the 14th Biennale de Lyon 2017 (France), Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016 (India) and the Yokohama Triennale 2014. Mohri is the Grand Prix winner of the Nissan Art Award 2015 and is also the recipient of Culture and Future Prize at the 65th Kanagawa Cultural Award in 2016 and the New Artist Award at the 67th Japanese Ministry of Education Award for Fine Arts in 2017.

Introductory Talk: Peter Fraser, Yuko Mohri & Chris Fite-Wassilak

Thursday 5 July, 6.00 – 7.00pm

Camden Art Centre · Introductory Talk: Peter Fraser, Yuko Mohri & Chris Fite-Wassilak

Artists Peter Fraser and Yuko Mohri discuss their exhibitions with writer and critic Chris Fite-Wassilak.

Peter Fraser (b. 1953, Cardiff, UK) graduated in photography from Manchester Polytechnic University in 1976. In 1982, Fraser began working with a Plaubel Makina camera, which led to an exhibition with William Eggleston at the Arnolfini, Bristol, in 1984. In that year Fraser went on to spend time living and working with Eggleston in the States. Recent solo shows include The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2002); Brancolini Grimaldi, London (2012); Tate St Ives (2013); Real Jardin de Botanico, Madrid (2017). In 2004, he was shortlisted for the Citibank Photography Prize.

Yuko Mohri (b. 1980, Kanagawa, Japan) is an artist whose installations detect invisible and intangible forces such as magnetism, gravity and light. In 2015, Mohri received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council for a residency in New York. She has participated in a number of exhibitions both in Japan and abroad, including the 14th Biennale de Lyon 2017 (France), Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016 (India) and the Yokohama Triennale 2014. Mohri is the Grand Prix winner of the Nissan Art Award 2015 and is also the recipient of Culture and Future Prize at the 65th Kanagawa Cultural Award in 2016 and the New Artist Award at the 67th Japanese Ministry of Education Award for Fine Arts in 2017.

Chris Fite-Wassilak is a writer and critic based in London. He is a regular contributor to Apollo, Art Monthly, Art Papers, ArtReview and frieze; his writing has also appeared in Art & Australia, Artforum.com, Flash Art, Monopol, Rhizome and Tate Etc. He is a contributing editor of ArtReview, and co-organiser with artist Anne Tallentire of the event ‘hmn’. His short book of essays, Ha-Ha Crystal (2016) is published by Copy Press.

Gallery Tours: Peter Fraser & Yuko Mohri

Wednesdays & Saturdays, 12.00 & 4.00pm

Drop in for free, short gallery tours led by our Volunteer Front of House assistants.

The tours begin in the Central Space.

Peter Fraser, ‘Untitled’ 2016, from ‘Mathematics’. Courtesy the artist