2013
Place
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venise, Italy
Client
Japan Foundation
Production
J. Gonçalves, Telmo & Lopes, Lda.
Dimension
250 m2
Curators
Didier Fiuza Faustino
Akiko Miyake
Angela Vettese
Purpose
Timed to coincided with the Venice Biennale’s 55th International Art Exhibition,
The Japan Foundation presented a special exhibition titled Unattained Landscape in conjunction with the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. The scenography was assigned to Didier Faustino.
Focusing on the theme of identity in Japanese culture, the event consisted of works by both Japanese and foreign artists representing a wide range of genres, including contemporary art, graphic design, literature, film, sound and manga.
Unattained Landscape is an exhibition that promotes art and cultural exchanges held within The Japan Foundation to ultimately reflect contemporary creation by reconsidering and questioning the islands of Japan as potential models for contemporary culture. It challenges the archipelago – the land in its contemporary form, and whatever it means to belong to a community, including the conditions of formation and its relation to a territory.
As nations are perpetually made or unmade, and as they subsequently mark territories with new physical boundaries, mental and temporal maps imperceptibly emerge to create invisible, discontinuous territories that transcend notions of a ‘nation’. These maps reveal an imaginary version of Japan; they convey desires and paradigms of a country represented not only by a group of cities, poetry, games or food, but by a fusion of fantasies invoked and inspired by Japanese and non-Japanese minds and films.