Born: 1971, Saitama, Japan
Lives and Works: Berlin
Noguchi Rika creates photographs of our planet that seem suspended in states of tranquil immersion. She often seeks out locations that speak of the limits of human knowledge and ambition. For her series New Land (1999-2000), for example, the artist documented the construction of artificial islands off the coast of the Netherlands; the group of photographs known as Rocket Hill (begun in 2001) record the facilities and launch pad of Japan's Tanegashima Space Center and its island setting. Although some of her photographs have featured human beings as their principal subjects, human figures are usually remote, incidental, or entirely absent from her "fieldwork." The series The Sun (begun in 2005) on view here is an earth-based exploration of a celestial body—our nearest and most familiar star—resulting from something that is beyond usual or sensible experience. The bursting coronas and incandescent flare-ups recorded in these images are the result of shooting directly into the sun using the most primitive type of lens-less device for capturing images—a pinhole camera.
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Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International
Widely known as one of the pre-eminent international surveys of contemporary art in the world, the Carnegie International was founded at the behest of industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896. With the Venice Biennale, the Carnegie International is the oldest such exhibition in the world. Titled "Life on Mars", the 2008 Carnegie International will focus on the increasingly relevant question of what it means to be human in the world today. The exhibition presents work by 40 artists who investigate particular aspects of the human condition, moving along paths that are both introspective and worldly while poetically traversing the dramatic spectrum from tragedy to comedy.
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Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International
Widely known as one of the pre-eminent international surveys of contemporary art in the world, the Carnegie International was founded at the behest of industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896. With the Venice Biennale, the Carnegie International is the oldest such exhibition in the world. Titled "Life on Mars", the 2008 Carnegie International will focus on the increasingly relevant question of what it means to be human in the world today. The exhibition presents work by 40 artists who investigate particular aspects of the human condition, moving along paths that are both introspective and worldly while poetically traversing the dramatic spectrum from tragedy to comedy.
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Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International
Widely known as one of the pre-eminent international surveys of contemporary art in the world, the Carnegie International was founded at the behest of industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896. With the Venice Biennale, the Carnegie International is the oldest such exhibition in the world. Titled "Life on Mars", the 2008 Carnegie International will focus on the increasingly relevant question of what it means to be human in the world today. The exhibition presents work by 40 artists who investigate particular aspects of the human condition, moving along paths that are both introspective and worldly while poetically traversing the dramatic spectrum from tragedy to comedy.
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