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Midori Mitamura

Country(activity based)：: Japan
Genre：: Visual Art

Profile

Midori Mitamura born in 1964, Aichi, Japan is a Tokyo based artist who creates installations that combine photography and video, text, found materials and everyday objects.
Japanese government overseas program for artist 2005, Finland.

Recent solo exhibitions
I'm standing beside the water, Bambinart Gallery, Tokyo, 2011
Temptation in Blue at Nanatsudera Studio, AICHI Triennial, Aichi, 2010
Purple Flower in her dress, Grita Insam Gallery, Vienna, 2009
Green on the Mountain a travelling exhibition in Finland and Secession in Vienna, Austria, 2005-06
Stories in two rooms, Nadiff+Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo, 2002

Selected group exhibitions
Quiet Attentions: Departure from Women, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, 2011
Domani, National Art Center Tokyo, 2009
Tokyo Story Esso Gallery, New York, 2007
Busan Biennale, South Korea, 2006
Location of the Spirits, Ludwig Museum, Budapest and the Moscow Contemporary Museum, Moscow, 2003
On Happiness, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, 2003

About works / performance

Mitamura's exhibition Art & Breakfast, Melbourne will be developed during a three month period as visiting artist in residence at Monash University.
Art & Breakfast is an ongoing project that has previously taken form in Stockholm, Tokyo and Berlin (2006-10). The project begins each morning with the artist making breakfast to eat together with gallery visitors. Mitamura then spends time in the exhibition space, creating and rearranging a series of small improvised installations each day. These temporary handmade installations reflect the transient nature of memory and emotional experience. This exhibition framework makes for an intimate exchange, whereby atmosphere, open-ended possible narratives and a kind of everyday mise-en-scene are built and shared between artist and visitor.