Shino Yanai (b. 1979, Nara)
Lives and works in London
Yanai creates installations using performance, video and sound. She is interested in relationship between sound and memory and her practice investigates the ways to show invisible power structure and alienation. She has studied and practiced Japanese painting before her interests shifted to contemporary art. Before going into the visual art, Yanai trained as a classical pianist.
Recent exhibitions and performance include: 'Well Temperament', curated by Kazuko Koike, for 'Praying for Tokyo', Tokyo Biennale 2020/2021 and the performance for the exhibition created and enacted with Ken Ikeda, both 2021; '11 Stories on Distanced Relationships: Contemporary Art from Japan', online exhibition organised by the Japan Foundation, 2021; 'Flowers of Romance', White Conduit Projects, London, 2021; Unwanted Sound curated by Haruka Iharada, Goethe-Institut, Tokyo, 2020; 'de-sport: The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Sports trough Art', 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2020; 'Creation and Technique', Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo, 2019; 'The Deep End', (solo), Sagacho Archives, Tokyo, 2019; 'Happy and Glorious' at 'TBCTV', Somerset House, London, 2018; 'A Point of No Return | Anthropocene Entity', Art Action UK and White Conduit Projects, London, 2018; 'Blue Passages', Mediarc International Festival of Architecture 'Proiezioni sezione Festival Internazionale Now You See Me Parigi 2017, Le Murate Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Florence, 2017; 'Blue Passages', Art Public - Now you seem me, International Public Art Short Film Contest, musée du Louvre, Paris, 2017; Blue Passages' (solo), White Conduit Projects, London, 2016
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