Judith Egger／ユディット・エガー

ユディット・エッガー（1973年生まれ）  ドイツ、ミュンヘン在住。 ユディット・エッガーは、自然と芸術、科学、人間との関係を探求し、物質、ひいては人間に影響を与える変容のプロセスを探求しています。彼女は、生命の起源の背後にある原理やエネルギー発現の変化に、長年にわたって魅了されてきました。 彼女の詩的で皮肉な行為は、私たちに人間らしさの喪失について考えさせます。私たちの良心に訴え、起源を無視して環境を破壊する社会の苦しい知的無気力から、私たちを無理やり覚醒させます。ユディットはすべてを包含する「生命力」（élan vital）の探求に駆り立てられており、その執念をドローイング、写真、パフォーマンスで表現しているのです。

Judith Egger (b. 1973) works and lives in Munich, Germany.

In 1992-93 she began her relationship with art by working as a woodcarving apprentice in Oberammergau, Germany. Between 1993 and 1997 she obtained the Design Diploma in Communication at the FH Augsburg, and Lancashire University, Preston, United Kingdom. In 2001 she graduated with a Master in Communication, Art and Design at the Royal College of Art in London.

 In her work, Judith Egger explores the relationship between nature and art, science, and humanity, investigating the processes of transformation that affect matter and, consequently, human beings. The principle behind the origin of life has fascinated her for years, as well as changing manifestations of energy.

Through her ironic actions filled with poetry, the artist makes us reflect on the processes of dehumanisation. While appealing to our conscience, forcing us to wake up from intellectual lethargy we are suffering in a society that ignores its origins and that is destroying its environment. Judith is driven to investigate the all encompassing "life force", the „élan vital“ - an obsession she expresses through drawings, photographs, and performances.

www.judithegger.de

Star Montana／スター・モンタナ

スター・モンタナは、カリフォルニア州ロサンゼルスを拠点に活動する、写真を使ったアーティストです。彼女が生まれ育ったロサンゼルス東部のボイル・ハイツ地区は、メキシコ系アメリカ人の住民が多く、その影響が多くの作品の背景に投影されています。イースト・ロサンゼルス・カレッジで写真の準学士号、スクール・オブ・ビジュアル・アーツで写真の学士号、南カリフォルニア大学でアートの修士号を取得しています。

Star Montana is a photo-based artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She was born and raised in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, which is predominantly Mexican American and serves as the backdrop to much of her work. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Art from the University of Southern California, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, and an Associate of Arts in Photography from East Los Angeles College.

Thania Petersen／ターニャ・ピーターセン

1980年、南アフリカ・ケープタウン生まれ。イスラム教やその宗教的、文化的、伝統的慣習についての認識や、アフリカ、アジア、中東における植民地主義的な帝国主義の歴史、西洋化された消費文化が社会的・文化的に与える影響などをテーマにした制作を行う。作品には、自分自身が受け継ぐケープマレーの文化や、イスラム教のスーフィーの宗教儀式などの習慣が反映されている。

Thania Petersen (b. 1980, South Africa) is an artist whose reference points sit largely in Islam and in creating awareness about its religious, cultural and traditional practices. Threads in her work include the history of colonialist imperialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, as well as the social and cultural impact of westernised consumer culture. Her work is also informed by her Cape Malay heritage, and the practice of Sufi Islamic religious ceremonies. 

Tuan Mami／トゥアン・マミ

ベトナム ハノイ在住。マミは、特定の場所に存在するように作成されたサイトスペシフィックなインスタレーション、ビデオ、パフォーマンス、コンセプチュアル・アートを手がける学際的・実験的なアーティストで、常に新しいメディア、手段、方法を探求し、内省的な問いと社会調査によって進化を遂げています。 彼のフォーカスは、人生、人と人、そして人と環境の間の、社会的相互作用についての疑問であり、特定の現実から人や物が社会的プロセスに入り込み、共に関与するような状況を再構築することにあります。

Tuan Mami lives and works in Hanoi. Mami is an interdisciplinary-experimental artist, working with site-specific installation, video, performance and conceptual art, who constantly explores new mediums, means and methods of evolving with reflective questioning, and social research.

In recent years, he has begun to explore and observe the concept of how we are *human* on the move. Starting from 2014, Mami has been researching about moving communities in Vietnam and Vietnamese diasporas around the world. He has tried to observe what has happened in these communities, what has remained, appearing and disappearing culturally, mentally, politically in the attempt to adapt and survive in their new contexts.

His focus deals with questions about life, social interactions between people, and people with their environment, to re-construct situations into ones that engage people or objects from particular reality to enter and involve together in a social process.  

Mami has held number of solo exhibitions such as  “Protest Against the Void”, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, 2013; “24Hours Tension”, PØST, Los Angeles, 2013; “In a Breath-Nothing Stands Still”: in Art Rotterdam 2016; Heritage Art Space,Hanoi 2017; Factory art space, Hochiminh 2018; Teratotera, Tokyo 2018… He has also participated in many international exhibitions including: “Cross Road”, Institute of Contemporary art, Singapore 2011; “Tokyo Story 2010”,Tokyo Wonder Site Tokyo 2011; “The Clouds Will Tell”, Changwon Sculpture Biennale, S.Korea 2014; “Plastic Myths”, ACC Gwangju, S.Korea 2015; “Krisis”, Nottingham, UK 2016; “Where the Sea Remembers”, Mistake Room, Los Angeles 2019; “Documenting Change- Our Climate”, The –­­­­­CU Art Museum, Colorado 2019; "Southeast Asia Performance Collection", The Haus Der Kunst, Munich 2019…

Vincent Lafrance／ヴィンセント・ラフランス

1978年生まれ。カナダのモントリオールを拠点に活動する写真家・映像作家。コンコルディア大学で写真のBFAを取得。 

15年近く、私のビデオ撮影は、日記的な美学と交差してきました。私はしばしばセルフポートレートに取り組み、自己撮影を通して自分の身体を演出します。私は、芸術の世界の構成要素に関する研究を進めています。より正確に言えば、アーティスト像の演出です。私の作品は基本的に物語的で、対話と独白を中心に構成されています。私は、自分の不安や弱さをできるだけ正直に話すために、ユーモアを用います。

Vincent Lafrance (b.1978) is a photographer and filmmaker based in Montreal, Canada. He holds a BFA in photography from Concordia University.  

For nearly 15 years, my videography has been crossed by a diarist aesthetic. I have often worked in self-portraiture, staging my body through self-filming. I pursue a research on the constituents of the art world. More precisely, the staging of the artist's figure. My work is essentially narrative, built around dialogues and interior speeches. I use humor to speak as honestly as possible about my anxieties and weaknesses.