Keisuke Takahashi | Mikuni Yanaihara
A quiet day



Inauguration: Saturday, November 26 at 6:30 pm

With regard to the March 11, 2011 disaster where thousands of lives were lost, together with homes, facilities and entire areas in Japan and which are no longer habitable and will not be for many years, the artistic duo has decided to dedicate their solo exhibition – at the Galleria Fumagalli – to a consideration arising from this tragic event and which reflects on the worldwide situation.
Keisuke and Mikuni feel they cannot think of their art without considering the dramatic situation their country is still facing and without considering the discussions and changes that this event brought about.
Debate on the use of nuclear energy, the altering balance of power within Japanese society, how daily habits have been disrupted and the memory of those lost days are the heart of this story told through a series of videos and stills taken from the video, where pain is not given in to but used to examine the means for embarking on a new beginning.
Keisuke, visual director, and Mikuni, choreographer and modern dancer, formed the off-Nibroll duo in 2005; their work mainly deals with the relationship between body and image.
Their objective is to go beyond the barriers of theatre and take dance to a level where interaction with the audience is more intimate and closer. For this reason, the Keisuke’s video animations are created using digital re-workings of videos of Mikuni’s choreographies which are adapted to narration on themes such as nature, progress, and the evolution of society, while her performances are integrated with the projected videos, dialoguing with the places where the projections take place.

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