Until 28 April, the Casa Encendida de Fundación Montemadrid, with the collaboration of the Fundación Japón, invites the Japanese visual artist Mari Katayama to show her work for the first time in Spain as part of the group exhibition Loving the Alien.
Mari Katayama, who has already exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Tate Modern and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, presents a selection of more than ten of her works, mainly her complex photographic compositions, in which she stands in front of the camera surrounded by her creations, giving centre stage to her corporeality and her relationship with people.
The exhibition Loving the Alien is an invitation to reconsider the limits of our bodies and identities, to reflect on otherness and to imagine possible metamorphoses through the positions of four artists: Sandra Mujinga, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Mari Katayama and Ovartaci.
Born in 1987 in Saitama (Japan), in 2012 Mari Katayama completed a master’s degree at the Department of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts. To create her works and relate to the world and society, she uses a camera, thread and needle, as well as her own prosthetic legs, as physical experience is essential to her. She uses a variety of techniques to express her corporeality and her relationship with people, which are modified by these experiences. Her interest is in the (physical) forms and lives of those who struggle to survive in the midst of the changes to which the city, society and systems subject us.
