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September 20, 2013

International Artists Yuka Oyama and Axel Ruoff Delve Into Clevelanders' Obsessive Relationships With Objects

For Immediate Release
Download PDF Press Release: http://www.spacesgallery.org/files/pr/2013/130920-spaces-oyama-pr.pdf
Opening Reception: Friday, November 15, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
On View: November 15, 2013 ? January 17, 2014
Admission: FREE and open to the public

Cleveland, OH, September 20, 2013—This fall, while in residence with the SPACES Worlds Artist Program, Japanese artist Yuka Oyama and German artist Axel Ruoff will collaborate on a
multi-media installation centered on how Clevelanders use objects to transform their appearance and mediate their identities.

Oyama's work combines her training in jewelry-making and wearable art with social practice to craft unique participation-based art pieces. Film-maker and painter Ruoff's work brings amateur actors and actresses to real-life locations to play out their fantasies, dreams, nightmares and memories, resulting in surreal scenes that skate the boundary between reality and fiction.

During their 6-week residency in Cleveland, Oyama and Ruoff will join forces to create an installation based off in-depth dialogues with a small group of Clevelanders about their relationships with objects, and how certain objects change the face they present to the world.

Oyama and Ruoff will seek out Clevelanders who have extraordinary relationships with objects-as obsessions, status symbols, or actual extensions of their personalities. They will talk with each participant about how these objects transform their identities by hiding, confirming, or threatening them.

The resulting work will weave together paintings, drawings, video and wearable objects to intimately reflect the content of these conversations.

ARTIST BIOS

Yuka Oyama (Born in Tokyo, Japan. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.) studied Jewelry/Light Metals at Rhode Island School of Design and received her MA in Sculpture and Jewelry at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in Germany. Oyama brings broad experience in participation/dialogue-based art to her knowledge and practice of jewelry-making. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Oslo National Academy of Arts in Norway. Recent exhibitions have included Szenen der Verf

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