Exhibition Announcement
ATAMI ART GRANT2024 超ー Beyond ATAMI
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『Sorry, this is (not) for you.』

Artists: Lea Embeli, Jini, Ana Jovanovska, Vivi Zhu
Directed and Curated by: Sun Kim
Assistant Curator: Lyudmila Georgieva
Design:  Ana Jovanovska,
Support: Alissa Osada-Phornsiri
Created by: (O)Kamemochi
Organised by: ATAMI ART GRANT 2024

Venue
Ozaki Land Bldg.
2-2 Sakimicho, Atami

Date: 2nd November – 1st December 2024
Opening Hours: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Last admission at 5:00 PM)
Opening: Fri/Sat/Sun/Holidays
Parking: Not available

*Please note that an ATAMI ART GRANT 2024 exhibition ticket is required for indoor venues.
*The works of (O)Kamemochi and Takahito Konishi displayed on the 1st floor can be viewed without a ticket.

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“Sorry, this is (not) for you.” is an exhibition presenting an imaginary pawnshop where belongings with personal value are exchanged for essential items at extorting rates. The exhibition poses the question to the viewer: What things/attachments/stories are you willing to give up to preserve your life?

Historically, colonialism and capitalism has enacted power as pawnbrokers, dictating what “acceptable” means and forcing marginalized communities and individuals out of respectable trades and positions in society. Outside of the mainstream, the marginalized are both associated with and victimized by the contemptible space they unwillingly occupy. In the pawnshop, both the clerks and the customers are victims of the same system yet are forced to play by its rules. 

Like the transparently omitted negation in the brackets of the title, the imaginary space of the pawnshop promises to fulfill the individual’s desires while arrogantly ignoring their needs. The exhibition illuminates women’s lives within those constraints, contaminated by society, economy, and history. The viewer is left to wander in the myriad of textual options, each of them simultaneously hiding and bearing the weight of female stories deemed unfaithful and contemptible by society.

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