Opening TRaces: Shino Matsuura
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6 dec-29 decVanaf 19:00TR25 Schouwburg, RotterdamErker Foyer
About TRaces
During the free expo program TRaces, we invite Rotterdam artists, from emerging to established, to use our building as a stage for ongoing exhibitions of interdisciplinary work that connect with the city of Rotterdam and its residents. The lobby is the exhibition space where these invited Rotterdam artists leave their mark! Is Theater Rotterdam open? Then you can always drop in during the expo period. From December 2nd until December 29th we welcome the artist .
About the artist
Shino’s artistic drive finds its form through communication with others, by forming and engaging in lasting relationships with people through the use of fine art, media art, documentary, fashion, graphic design, performance, sculpture, video work, installation, and curation. For Shino, the point of artistic activity is to facilitate communication between people about who they are, including herself. Art is a tool that serves Shino’s life and what she loves most: relationships. Her loyalty to life itself instead of a perceived idea of ‘art’ makes for a very fluid position about what the word means.
Her current project entails handing out empty cassette cases to relations all over the world and asking them to fill them in whichever way; artworks, personal artefacts, messages,... all the while she archives, exposes, and stays in touch. The assembling of all these cassettes is an undertaking that transcends juridic, economic, or geographical borders. Other examples include curating a month-long international exhibition with periodic happenings, cinema screenings, and performances. Consistently developing fashion collections to spread in Europe and Japan and designing spaces facilitating particular personal exchanges between strangers.
The honesty of her approach is underlined by her uncertain position between The Netherlands and Japan, in a geographical as well as cultural sense. Since the beginning, friction between different worldviews and ways of communicating has been inherent to who she is.
This edition of TRaces will have its grand opening Saturday December 6th at 19:00 in the erker of TR25 Schouwburg, prior to the the performance My Fierce Ignorant Step. You are most welcome to join us and have a toast on the expo. From then on the expo is free to visit until December 29th before and after the performances in the main auditorium. Find more information about TRaces and an overview of all the previous editions.
