Sybille Neumeyer, Nandesha Shanthi Prakash and Rodrigo Gonzalez: ARCUS International Residency Programme, Ibaraki, Japan, 30 August

Three solo exhibitions Sybille Neumeyer (b.1982, Germany), Nandesha Shanthi Prakash (b.1970, India), and Rodrigo Gonzalez (b.1984, Mexico). The result of residencies at ARCUS Project where artworks and projects develop out of encounters with people, the land, and culture and aspire to form critical spaces that are open and international.

One of the longest established artist residencies in Japan, Arcus Project “Residency for Artists, Experiments for Locals” aims to support promising artists from across the globe, and also, to promote the Ibaraki area through art.

German artist Sybille Neumeyer presents the familiar – spaces and contexts but shifts our perceptions of such through an investigation of a proposition, or situation and discourse in any given work – as much as part of the creative act as interaction with the work. Her work makes visible what is often hidden and engages us with forces that though often seemingly intangible or insurmountable are too important for us to ignore. Neumeyer’s residency proposal tackles some of the key questions about culture and nature and is fertile ground for process and research. Her ARCUS project focused on relations between human and nature. During her stay in Japan, Nuemeyer investigated layers of history, present and future: how do our connections to food, land, environment shift? Observing the local situation and rethinking global structures, I am trying to enable a dialogue between personal experience knowledge and the understanding of our environment beyond a natural bodily perception. Slipping in the role of a silent observer, Nuemeyers interest is articulated in simple and small materials.

Her ARCUS project focused on relations between human and nature. During her stay in Japan, Nuemeyer investigated layers of history, present and future: how do our connections to food, land, environment shift? Observing the local situation and rethinking global structures, I am trying to enable a dialogue between personal experience knowledge and the understanding of our environment beyond a natural bodily perception. Slipping in the role of a silent observer, Nuemeyers interest is articulated in simple and small materials.