LEMONISM x CUBISM | DADAISM | MINIMALISM | SYMBOLISM & ACTIONISM | *JAPONISM | 2017
“Performances & video installations”

LEMONISM x JAPONISM may be considered Takeya’s most intimate contribution to her series, where she confronts the art form that brought together two geographical, political and artistic worlds. Her point of reference is Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Père Tanguy who is dressed in a Breton costume and placed in front of Japanese prints. In cooperation with visual artist, film director and dramaturge Naoto Lina, Takeya provides a contemporary response to van Gogh: a kind of parody on a self-portrait that combines eastern and western influences and confronts inner and outer worlds. “I’m a choreographer and performer who is no longer constrained by her Japanese roots but has not yet fully arrived in Europe. I’m confronting myself with the duality of my existence between cultures and I’m meeting the western way of looking at Japanese art and culture.” This creates a flickering between traditional forms and western imports, between familiar and foreign, between adaption and rebellion. “I try to break down identities and gender constructions between Japan and Europe, to explore their differences, combinations and entanglements.” – by Jürgen Bauer

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