Special Exhibition “Tintin Uriah: Common Things” [Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art]

What has had a major influence on Tintin Uria's artistic practice and research is her own origin, a Chinese Balinese ethnic minority, and the presence of her grandfather, who went missing during the Indonesian massacre that occurred in 1965-66. Uriah, who has experienced discrimination since childhood, is interested in boundaries created by people and wars that people wage to maintain those boundaries, and has conveyed these issues through installations and video works spanning multiple fields.
Through artistic practice based on personal experience, Uriah gradually becomes aware that everything around us can become “common things” that connect people by acquiring aesthetic elements.
Currently, we are working on a project to investigate how these aesthetic objects lead to social and political change.
In this exhibition, which is her first solo exhibition in Japan, she will introduce works from the relatively early days to the present. It is an opportunity to experience changes in Uria's artistic experiments, which focus on how personal backgrounds, including individual memories, can be transformed into collective actions and social connections with others through her work.