Yuki Okumura at LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS

Artist: Yuki Okumura

Exhibition title: 29,771 days – 2,094,943 steps

Organized by: MISAKO&ROSEN

Venue: LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels, Belgium

Date: February 21 – April 13, 2019

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and MISAKO&ROSEN

To make a hole in a day as a nap
before we make the great leap into space
I have a dull pain in my eyes
through the invisible cosmic rays

man walks on the planet earth
A death mask stolen, of James Joyce
The total distance walked during their lives
I make love to the days

Difference between sameness and difference is same
A street, 1000.01 lightyears long

The dead have left their marks
All the Information of Mankind on the Earth
immortalized in the logbook of the past
I didn’t sleep well last night

Man Walks on Moon
when the people will have lost their remembrance
For all those who have lived and died
how empty is this space?

Sameness between difference and sameness is different
A street, 1000.02 lightyears long

I am going to sleep forget it
before mankind once and for all, enters space
I still have a pain in my eyes
raining cosmic rays

it’s all right if you are there
together into something new

Difference between sameness and difference is same
A street, 1000.03 lightyears long

Sameness between difference and sameness is different
A street, 1000.04 lightyears long

Yuki Okumura, 29,771 days – 2,094,943 steps, 2019, exhibition view, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels, Belgium

Yuki Okumura, 29,771 days – 2,094,943 steps, 2019, Scanned and partly overlaid published photographic image; archival pigment print on paper, image: 38x56cm, frame: 40.1×58.3cm

Yuki Okumura, 29,771 days – 2,094,943 steps, 2019, exhibition view, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels, Belgium

Yuki Okumura, The Man Who, 2019, Sequenced film fragments of interviews with: Marja Bloem, Michel Claura, Herman Daled, Michèle Didier, Rudi Fuchs, Yves Gevaert, Kasper König, Jean-Hubert Martin, Phillip Van den Bossche

Yuki Okumura, The Man Who, 2019, Sequenced film fragments of interviews with: Marja Bloem, Michel Claura, Herman Daled, Michèle Didier, Rudi Fuchs, Yves Gevaert, Kasper König, Jean-Hubert Martin, Phillip Van den Bossche

Yuki Okumura, The Man Who, 2019, Sequenced film fragments of interviews with: Marja Bloem, Michel Claura, Herman Daled, Michèle Didier, Rudi Fuchs, Yves Gevaert, Kasper König, Jean-Hubert Martin, Phillip Van den Bossche

Yuki Okumura, The Man Who, 2019, Sequenced film fragments of interviews with: Marja Bloem, Michel Claura, Herman Daled, Michèle Didier, Rudi Fuchs, Yves Gevaert, Kasper König, Jean-Hubert Martin, Phillip Van den Bossche

Yuki Okumura, The Man Who, 2019, Sequenced film fragments of interviews with: Marja Bloem, Michel Claura, Herman Daled, Michèle Didier, Rudi Fuchs, Yves Gevaert, Kasper König, Jean-Hubert Martin, Phillip Van den Bossche

Yuki Okumura, The Man Who, 2019, Sequenced film fragments of interviews with: Marja Bloem, Michel Claura, Herman Daled, Michèle Didier, Rudi Fuchs, Yves Gevaert, Kasper König, Jean-Hubert Martin, Phillip Van den Bossche

Yuki Okumura, The Man Who, 2019, Sequenced film fragments of interviews with: Marja Bloem, Michel Claura, Herman Daled, Michèle Didier, Rudi Fuchs, Yves Gevaert, Kasper König, Jean-Hubert Martin, Phillip Van den Bossche

Yuki Okumura, The Man Who, 2019, Sequenced film fragments of interviews with: Marja Bloem, Michel Claura, Herman Daled, Michèle Didier, Rudi Fuchs, Yves Gevaert, Kasper König, Jean-Hubert Martin, Phillip Van den Bossche

Yuki Okumura, The Man Who, 2019, Sequenced film fragments of interviews with: Marja Bloem, Michel Claura, Herman Daled, Michèle Didier, Rudi Fuchs, Yves Gevaert, Kasper König, Jean-Hubert Martin, Phillip Van den Bossche

Yuki Okumura, The Man Who, 2019, Sequenced film fragments of interviews with: Marja Bloem, Michel Claura, Herman Daled, Michèle Didier, Rudi Fuchs, Yves Gevaert, Kasper König, Jean-Hubert Martin, Phillip Van den Bossche

Yuki Okumura, 29,771 days – 2,094,943 steps, 2019, exhibition view, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels, Belgium

Yuki Okumura, 29,771 days – 2,094,943 steps, 2019, exhibition view, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels, Belgium

Yuki Okumura, 59, 60 – 29, 30 (“KONZEPT” – KUNST, 1972), 2019, Scanned and overlaid exhibition catalogue pages; archival pigment print on polyethylene film mounted on plexiglass, 29.7x42cm

Yuki Okumura, 59, 60 – 29, 30 (“KONZEPT” – KUNST, 1972), 2019, Scanned and overlaid exhibition catalogue pages; archival pigment print on polyethylene film mounted on plexiglass, 29.7x42cm

Yuki Okumura, 29,771 days – 2,094,943 steps, 2019, exhibition view, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels, Belgium

Yuki Okumura, 29,771 days – 2,094,943 steps, 2019, exhibition view, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels, Belgium

Yuki Okumura, 146, 147 – 76, 77 (sonsbeek 71, 1971), 2019, Scanned, partly erased and entirely overlaid exhibition catalogue pages; archival pigment print on polyethylene film mounted on plexiglass, 42×29.7cm

Yuki Okumura, 146, 147 – 76, 77 (sonsbeek 71, 1971), 2019, Scanned, partly erased and entirely overlaid exhibition catalogue pages; archival pigment print on polyethylene film mounted on plexiglass, 42×29.7cm

Yuki Okumura, 29,771 days – 2,094,943 steps, 2019, exhibition view, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels, Belgium

Yuki Okumura, 29,771 days – 2,094,943 steps, 2019, exhibition view, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels, Belgium

Yuki Okumura, 21 – 48 (18 PARIS IV. 70, 1970), 2019, Scanned, partly erased and entirely overlaid exhibition catalogue pages; archival pigment print on polyethylene film mounted on plexiglass, 16.3×10.1cm

Yuki Okumura, 21 – 48 (18 PARIS IV. 70, 1970), 2019, Scanned, partly erased and entirely overlaid exhibition catalogue pages; archival pigment print on polyethylene film mounted on plexiglass, 16.3×10.1cm

Yuki Okumura, 29,771 days – 2,094,943 steps, 2019, exhibition view, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels, Belgium

Yuki Okumura, 29,771 days – 2,094,943 steps, 2019, exhibition view, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels, Belgium

Yuki Okumura, 68 – 27 (INFORMATION, 1970), 2019, Scanned, partly erased and entirely overlaid exhibition catalogue pages; archival pigment print on polyethylene film mounted on plexiglass, 27.2×20.3cm

Yuki Okumura, 68 – 27 (INFORMATION, 1970), 2019, Scanned, partly erased and entirely overlaid exhibition catalogue pages; archival pigment print on polyethylene film mounted on plexiglass, 27.2×20.3cm

Yuki Okumura, 397 – 393 (documenta 7, 1982), 2019, Scanned, partly erased and entirely superimposed exhibition catalogue pages; archival pigment print on polyethylene film mounted on plexiglass, 27.2×20.3cm

Yuki Okumura, 397 – 393 (documenta 7, 1982), 2019, Scanned, partly erased and entirely superimposed exhibition catalogue pages; archival pigment print on polyethylene film mounted on plexiglass, 27.2×20.3cm