Creative

exonemo

Formed 1996, Tokyo, Japan. The artists live and work in New York, New York, United States of America. Artist unit, Exonemo formed in 1996 with key members Sembo Kensuke and Akaiwa Yae. Exonemo create experiments that explore the boundaries of the internet and internet culture. Critical to this examination are the exploration of digital paradoxes and the divide between analog, digital and real life. Exonemo’s exhibitions include: Baruch College Library, New York, U.S.A 2018; Plg.in, Basel, Switzerland, 2008, Whitney Museum, New York, 2019; Jogja National Museum, Jog Jakarta, Indonesia, 2018, New Museum, New York, USA; Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, 2018. Since 2012 they have organized the ‘Internet Yami-Ichi’, a large flea market that has taken place in Tokyo and New York and which makes the often immaterial flotsam of cyberspace tangible in online-themed objects.

Two television monitors are suspended from a gallery ceiling, one broadcasting a kissing face overlapped with the other television monitor. Cords from the monitors hang down into a pile of electrical cords on the gallery floor.

exonemo, Kiss, or Dual Monitors (installation view), 2017, HD video, cables, dimensions variable; photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, The Invisible Hand, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, July 2019, courtesy the artists.

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