KENTO TERADA

Terada’s diverse photographic practice ranges from straight photography to the use of different effects. For example, living with my imaginary wife and little girl, in which he becomes an imaginary father and acts the part of being in the happy company of an absent family, is a work of multilayered critique covering gender and social norms determined and internalized as a result of the sex we are born with, sexuality, masculinity, and queer approaches to sex and life excluded from all this. Terada appears to be attempting through the medium of photography to pick up structures and histories rendered invisible in society, and the figures and voices of unseen others.

This first solo exhibition of Terada’s work at a gallery will present photographs and prints that trace lingering memories of the war in the artist’s homeland of Okinawa, such as bullet holes left in walls on the street, the vast vacant sites of former military bases, cartridge cases from postwar drills, and uchikabi fake money burned as an offering for the dead.

Don’t miss this latest instalment of the “Interrogating Photographs” series of exhibitions at Yumiko Chiba Associates.