Taninaka Yuske: Choose Grief

Taninaka Yuske’s interdisciplinary sculpture, dance, and performance practice treats the human body not as something independent but as an entity influenced by its surroundings, exploring the emergent body’s relationships with the environment and other people.
Through installation, sculpture, moving image, performance, and drawing, the exhibition examines the inherent physical fragility of the body in terms of aging, injury, and disability, as well as the desires and fleeing hopes that ever-improving medical technology gives us about overcoming that fragility, and what it means to live our lives with the knowledge that our bodies are weak and cannot always do what we want them to do.
The exhibition title connotes an inquiry into our ability to live in a way that engages with the “grief” over the bodily functions we lose over time due to our inevitable illness and death. When complete treatment or recovery is elusive, we must compromise with the constantly changing reality of our lives. Whether in good or bad health, we are all prisoners of our uncertain and unstable bodies, a condition that this exhibition re-examines.

Artist: Taninaka Yuske

Organized by: Towada Art Center

Sponsored by: MELCO Group Inc.

Supported by: Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation, Nomura Foundation

In Cooperation with: Ichisawa Concrete Industry Co.,Ltd., Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka

Endorsed by: Asahi Broadcasting Aomori Co., Ltd., Aomori Broadcasting Corporation, Aomori Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd., Aomori Fm Broadcasting, The Daily-Tohoku Shimbun Inc., The To-o Nippo Press, and Towada City Board of Education