The subjective self of Ei Arakawa-Nash

Ei Arakawa-Nash is a Fukushima-born Japanese performance artist living in the United States. From 1998 in New York and then from 2019 in Los Angeles. He has exhibited all over the world in exhibitions and performances which took place, among others, at the Tate Modern in London, at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf and at the Honolulu Biennial. His performances are created through collaborations with various people including contemporary artists. The means of these collaborations are different, with some artists physically present or in other cases manifesting themselves through their works. In this exhibition in Tokyo, Arakawa-Nash relates to the paintings and works of other New York artists of the 2000s. In this way Arakawa-Nash redesigns the very idea of the "subjective self" by establishing the intersection between the collaborations with these artists and with the public to give life to an exhibition that emphasizes the precariousness of works of art and where a line becomes a scenario, a canvas becomes an actor, a color becomes a song.