PRADA AOYAMA

LIZZIE FITCH / RYAN TRECARTIN: IT WAIVES BACK

This exhibition is the first presentation of the American duo Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin in Asia. The installation, films, and free-standing sculptures on view are part of a larger body of work that began in 2016, when the artists moved their home and studio to rural Ohio. A key element of the artists’ practice is revisiting past works to explore how multiple truths can coexist simultaneously. To create the new work shown in Tokyo, the duo reviewed hundreds of hours of footage from the production of the film WhetherLine (2019), which was shot on a permanent set consisting of a massive flowing pool, moat, hobby barn, and 50-foot-tall forest watchtower that Fitch and her team built on their Ohio property. In addition to exploring concepts of territory and ownership and their impact on the development of the self, these works also feature Fitch/Trecartin’s signature “sculptural theater” installation: a hybrid environment consisting of a wooden structure and a dark, greenhouse-like space that embodies contrasting notions of interior and exterior, viewer and participant, and leisure and work.