Stratified Languages: Images from Contact Zones

Aperçu : écrit avant l'ouverture de l'exposition

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.