Takaaki KJ Artworks for Sale

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Bogota is a city of which very little is said, despite its economic and demographic growth, visits and new migrations in recent years. Except for a few sectors, most of the metropolis are anonymous places with few geographic-tourist reference points. In general, for many inhabitants of Bogota, the knowledge they have about other localities and neighborhoods outside their own, whether in the work or residential context, is an unknown panorama or world, since there is hardly any reason to visit areas where there are only houses, factories, warehouses, storehouses and avenues, many of which are indistinguishable. As a resident photographer and daily immersed in the everyday spaces of Bogotá, my works seek to find a reasonable sense of visiting and experiencing the "anonymous" spaces of the city mentioned above. It is believed in the conviction that the act of photographing is not only about recording places, but also about creating them. Instead of trying to identify already recognized sites of interest, whether cultural or historical, I engaged in a reverse process where the photographs are highlighting and even reinventing places as sites worthy of attention. During the tour, from the insertion of a camera in my daily routines of displacement, an intriguing process has been experienced in which, as my perceptions move from the daily panoramas to the captured images and vice versa, the experience begins to resemble a "touristic" tour, of those that are made in cities or sites that have enjoyed the privilege of such recognition. In other words, my works have tried to witness the process of resignification of urban spaces, from the possible practice of reinventing urban cartography from the anonymous sites of the city, in order to recognize those "unique" sites worthy of a photographic pilgrimage.

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Bogota is a city of which very little is said, despite its economic and demographic growth, visits and new migrations in recent years. Except for a few sectors, most of the metropolis are anonymous places with few geographic-tourist reference points.

In general, for many inhabitants of Bogota, t...

Bogota is a city of which very little is said, despite its economic and demographic growth, visits and new migrations in recent years. Except for a few sectors, most of the metropolis are anonymous places with few geographic-tourist reference points.

In general, for many inhabitants of Bogota, the knowledge they have about other localities and neighborhoods outside their own, whether in the work or residential context, is an unknown panorama or world, since there is hardly any reason to visit areas where there are only houses, factories, warehouses, storehouses and avenues, many of which are indistinguishable.

As a resident photographer and daily immersed in the everyday spaces of Bogotá, my works seek to find a reasonable sense of visiting and experiencing the "anonymous" spaces of the city mentioned above. It is believed in the conviction that the act of photographing is not only about recording places, but also about creating them. Instead of trying to identify already recognized sites of interest, whether cultural or historical, I engaged in a reverse process where the photographs are highlighting and even reinventing places as sites worthy of attention.

During the tour, from the insertion of a camera in my daily routines of displacement, an intriguing process has been experienced in which, as my perceptions move from the daily panoramas to the captured images and vice versa, the experience begins to resemble a "touristic" tour, of those that are made in cities or sites that have enjoyed the privilege of such recognition.

In other words, my works have tried to witness the process of resignification of urban spaces, from the possible practice of reinventing urban cartography from the anonymous sites of the city, in order to recognize those "unique" sites worthy of a photographic pilgrimage.

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USD $200 ~ $300

Biography

to be updatedResides in Bogotá and Tokyo. D. in Art History from the University of Kansas, USA; M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Osaka University, Japan.

Since 2016, based on her residency in the two continents, she has directed several curatorial projects. Exhibitions with contemporary artists...

to be updatedResides in Bogotá and Tokyo. D. in Art History from the University of Kansas, USA; M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Osaka University, Japan.

Since 2016, based on her residency in the two continents, she has directed several curatorial projects. Exhibitions with contemporary artists from Japan held in Colombia include, Post 3.11-Felicidad: Seis videoartistas del Japón contemporáneo (Museo Universitario de la Universidad de Antioquia, 2018); Línea Interrumpida: Fotografía y videoarte del Japón contemporáneo (Centro Colombo-Americano Medellín, Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, 2018).

He held exhibitions with Latin American artists in Japan, at the Instituto Cervantes Tokyo (2018) and Art Trace Gallery (2019) among others. Likewise, since 2018, she leads projects that promote local art scenes in Bogota, through her collaboration with independent and institutional spaces such as Maleza Proyectos, CASADUCUARA and Universidad de La Salle, among others.

Complete list of curatorial projects (2016-2021)

Since 2018, he resumed his work as a photographer. He has shown his photographic works in several group exhibitions in Colombia, Japan and the United States. In 2021, he launched Proyecto Nómadas, an experimentation collective that challenges new frontiers within contemporary photographic theory from spontaneous situations generated around photographic shots as an action of intervention in public spaces. He presented the results of this project in the exhibition at Art Space Tetra (2021) and at A/R/P (Art, Research, Practice) the international conference organized by Tokyo University of the Arts (2021).

He was invited to present his doctoral research on the Japanese painter Kitagawa Tamiji (1894-1989) in different international conferences held in Mexico, Colombia and Ecuador. He continues to work on projects that question theoretical and practical boundaries between art and ethnography locally and internationally.

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