Rocket Hill. The exhibition consists of ten large-scale digital c-print photographs taken in and around the Tanegashima Space Center, an island complex from which NASDA, the Japanese space program, launches nearly all of its flights.
Rocket Hill
D'Amelio Terras is pleased to present Rocket Hill, an exhibition of new work
by Japanese artist Noguchi Rika. The exhibition consists of ten large-scale
digital c-print photographs taken in and around the Tanegashima Space
Center, an island complex from which NASDA, the Japanese space program,
launches nearly all of its flights.
These photographs continue Rika's recent investigation of physical spaces
where the natural and man-made meet to create narratives of human presence
on Earth. When asked why she creates her work, the artist answered: 'A sense
of mission.' This mission eschews manipulation of the photographs,
presenting Rika's unfiltered sense of wonder at the world of vast, serene
skies and heroically-scaled structures. The photographs do not present a
single vanishing point, but instead open out onto a flat plane of space that
attempts to register equally all that the eye can see.
Noguchi Rika was born in 1971 in Saitama, Japan. She lives and works in
Tokyo. Her photographs have been exhibited recently at the National Museum
of Modern Art, Tokyo; the East Modern Art Center, Beijing; and Vedanta
Gallery, Chicago. This spring, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San
Francisco will present her work as part of Time After Time: Asia and Our
Moment. A recent monograph, A Feeling of Something Happening, will be
available at the gallery during the exhibition.
Opening reception: Saturday, March 29, 6 to 8pm
For press and visuals requests, please contact Brian Sholis at 212.352.9460
or via email
Next exhibition: Cornelia Parker, May 8 Â June 21, 2003.
D'Amelio Terras represents Polly Apfelbaum, Erica Baum, Delia Brown, Tony
Feher, Joanne Greenbaum, Glenn Ligon, John Morris, Rei Naito, Rika Noguchi,
Damián Ortega, Cornelia Parker, Miguel Rio Branco, Karin Sander, Joe
Scanlan, and Yoshihiro Suda.
D Amelio Terras
525 West 22nd Street NY 10011
New York