MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY is proud to present a solo exhibition by Yurie Nagashima, opening on October 16, 2020. For the past five years, Nagashima has been actively exhibiting at art museums, with a major solo exhibition at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in 2017, followed recently by shows such as solo exhibitions at the Chihiro Art Museum and Yokohama Civic Gallery Azamino, and a joint exhibition with Kei Takemura at the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma. This is her first solo exhibition at MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY in four and a half years.
In this exhibition, Nagashima presents 8×10 photograms made by placing some of the many pressed flowers that she inherited from her grandmother on photographic paper, and landscape photos printed after applying a photosensitive emulsion to wooden boards. The photograms were shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma and the landscapes at Yokohama Civic Gallery Azamino. Both sets are black-and-white photographs that Nagashima printed herself in a darkroom. They are presented here in a new configuration as an installation for this show.
Yurie Nagashima was born in Tokyo in 1973. After her sensational artist debut by her family nude portraits which was awarded PARCO Prize in 1993, she received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1999. She has held numerous solo exhibitions including at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. She has published eight photography artwork books and an essay book which was awarded Kodansha Essay Award. In 2015, Nagashima received Master's degree in Sociology at Musashi University, continues to develop her artistic language in relation with feminism and the society. In 2020, she receive The Domestic Photographer Award in The 36th Higashikawa Award.

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