Ken + Julia Yonetani: The Great Exhibition


Mizuma Gallery presents to you THE GREAT EXHIBITION, a solo exhibition by Ken + Julia Yonetani which runs from 4 June – 17 July 2016.

Ken + Julia Yonetani are not unfamiliar names to the international audience. Having represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2009 and shown in Singapore Biennale 2013, this two-person artists’ unit translates the nearby environs and current political issues into works filled with aesthetic and humour. The duo work largely overseas and have shown internationally, from group exhibitions in Australia, Germany, UK, France, Israel, and Canada, to solo exhibitions in UK, France, Japan, and Australia, including the recent presentation at the Australian National Museum in Canberra. They have also undertaken artists-in-residence programmes in Finland, Portugal, Germany, France, Japan, and Australia. This solo exhibition will be their first in Singapore.

For this exhibition, the artists will be presenting a survey of their recent works. The central piece will be The Last Supper (2014) which shows a nine-meter table made of over one tonne of groundwater salt sourced from the Murray-Darling basin. It features a variety of foodstuffs in the form of an exquisite banquet. To quote the artists: “The work points to concerns arising from increasing salinity levels in Australia and unsustainable agricultural practices. In the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, the massive banquet of luxurious foodstuffs also becomes a larger visualisation of the problems of food security and safety in an increasingly toxic world.”