Diary 2020

The Third Gallery Aya is very pleased to announce an exhibition by INAGAKI Tomoko.
The works of Inagaki Tomoko, in various media including video, photography, and installation, primarily focus on Japanese society and gender issues. Here, we are pleased to present three of her video works produced in 2020 since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

In her new video piece Love Has No Face, Inagaki alone plays both male and female roles using a gender conversion function on the Snapchat video messaging app. How do people judge each other on the basis of gender and age? The work offers various perspectives, which differ depending on the viewer, on the theme of “love.”

Also on view will be the 2020 version of Inagaki’s Doors, a video project ongoing since 2013 in which she opens a door and enters a room once a year, as well as a new work in which, like the other two, the artist herself performs.

The three works in this exhibition, all highly performative in nature, were created under the circumstances of the pandemic, wherein meeting others has become difficult and many are spending longer periods of time in introspection. They will be shown with the collective title Diary 2020, representing the artist’s own self-exploration.