National Museum of Art, OsakaNakanoshima

Stratified Languages: Images from Contact Zones

Laster2026(e)ko abenduaren 1(a) – 2027(e)ko martxoaren 14(a)1.800 ¥

Works from the museum's collection on images and words where languages and cultures meet, focused on Asian borderlands shaped by colonial rule and war.

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Heshiki Kenshichi's 1972 work from Iheya, an Okinawan island, is titled after the push to make everyone speak the common, standard language. That pressure, a language imposed from above, runs through the whole show.

Sixteen artists, mostly from the museum's own collection, look at Asian borderlands shaped by colonial rule, war and division: Cao Fei, Ilya Kabakov, Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joon, Ho Rui An and others. It fills the B3 gallery, and video does a lot of the work. You could sit through six films here, from Yamashiro Chikako's seven minutes to Cao Fei's 37, adding up to almost two hours.

Budget time accordingly or pick your films. Adults pay 1,800 yen, 1,600 yen after 17:00 on Fridays, when it stays open until 20:00. The ticket also covers the museum's collection show, Contemporary Art as History.

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Pictures and words from the museum's own collection, chosen from places where languages and cultures meet: Asian borderlands shaped by colonial rule and war. The ticket includes the collection exhibition.

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Kitajima Keizo's USSR 1991
Look for his photograph of a street performer in St Petersburg's Peace Square, taken on 27 September 1991.
Cao Fei's MatryoshkaVerse
The longest film in the show at 37 minutes, so check where it is in its loop before you sit down.