Rie Toguchi外口 理恵

Rie toguchi's portrait

Biography

Rie Toguchi is a Japanese artist currently works in Tokyo.
Toguchi’s multimedia installation works, including painting, photography, glasswork, sound, video and text, explore the psychological structure in human society by reference to the idea of folklore, anthropology and philosophy. Her works particularly focus on the fragility of human’s insensible beliefs; spirituality in the existence of invisible borders between human and sacred places, the weirdness of social norms such as understanding for ‘eating’ and ‘sexual intercourse’, the mythological structure of Japanese pop idols’ culture, and the difficulty of having sexual perversion to live in the society.

1990年東京生まれ。2015年に多摩美術大学美術学部絵画学科油画専攻を卒業後、2019年にロンドン大学ゴールドスミスカレッジMFAファインアートコースを修了。
これまで民俗学や人類学、哲学などを参照しながら現代にまで続く儀礼行為や土地の持つ霊性にまつわる人間の精神性、あるいは身体性に関する考察を写真、映像、音響、絵画、テクストなど多様なメディアを縦断しながらインスタレーション作品として制作。
近作ではそうした考察を現代社会における人々が無自覚的に持つ信仰とは何かいう点から日本社会においての過剰な同調圧力や規範意識から生じる排他的欲求の問題にまで展開し、食と性の関係性を巡った規範意識に関する作品や、アイドル文化を通して見る信仰の脆弱性、暴力性、そして贈与を巡る問題についての作品を制作している。

Education

  • 2017-2019
    Goldsmiths, University of London MFA in Fine Art course
  • 2011-2015
    Tama Art University, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Course B.F.A

Exhibitions

  • 2024
    “Ghost Note” Kanzan Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2021
    "Nakanojo Biennale 2021" Former Daisan Elementary School, Nakanojo town, Gunma Prefecture
  • 2020
    "STARTPOINT" Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
  • 2019
    "Skin-Contact: Ephemeral Editions" Enclave, London
  • 2019
    "How Come You Never Go There" 310NXRD, London
  • 2018
    "GoldX" Goldsmiths, University of London, London
  • 2018
    "Interim show" Goldsmiths, University of London, London
  • 2018
    "When They Flow" Chisenhale Studios, London
  • 2015
    "Documentary of how to face to the dead" Cave Contemporary, Kanagawa
  • 2015
    "Tama Art University 2015 degree show" Tama Art University, Tokyo
  • 2014
    "She will smile someday, somewhere far beyond" Zushi Art Site, Kanagawa
  • 2014
    “When she died, she wore the rouge given by her sister” Cave Contemporary, Kanagawa
  • 2012
    “Reverberation” upstairs gallery, Tokyo

Workshop

  • 2019
    “ACTUAL CREATIVITY:Discovering Reality & Originality in Sampling Culture”
    INTERNATIONAL LUTHERAN STUDENT CENTRE, London

Awards

  • 2020
    STARTPOINT Prize for European Art Graduates
  • 2015
    Tama Art University Degree Show Excellence Awards