Mio Okido: Remembered Images and Imagined (Hi)Stories

Film

During the course of her artist residency from October to December 2023, as part of "The Collaborative Museum" project, Japanese artist Mio Okido conducted research into the exhibition Contemporary Japanese Painting, which was held at the Akademie der Künste Berlin in 1931. She also explored neo-traditional Japanese painting (Nihonga) and addressed the subject of Japanese imperialism and colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The central theme of Mio Okido’s artistic practice is the construction of memories. She is especially interested in how texts, images and other evidence of visual culture, monuments and (memorial) sites are employed by individuals, institutions and nation states to construct versions of (hi)stories that serve their own specific interests.