‘Sorry, this is (not) for you’  is an imaginary ‘pawn shop’ where belongings deemed valuable are exchanged at a usurious rate for the essentials, questioning: what things/attachments/stories are you willing to give up in exchange for something more urgent and necessary? 

Colonialism and capitalism impose power as pawnbrokers on the marginalized, making individuals an ‘unfaithful’ presence working in a contemptible space. This exhibition illuminates the stories of women contaminated by the objectification of society, economy, and history in this imaginary pawnshop, which pretends to fulfill your dreams yet forces your value to protrude and fall from the weight of this contemptible history. 

The exhibition illuminates these degenerated stories of women contaminated by the objectification of society, economy, and history by displaying the related artworks as commodities in this “unfaithful” space where people expect to be offered and exchange the desires, materials, values, curiosities, and fantasies that people have in capitalist society. Ironically, this juxtaposition invites people to question what kind of values they will exchange and preserve by overlapping.

with the Atami’s modern history experienced the flourish of the bubble economic era. Like the transparently omitted negation in the brackets of the title, this imaginary space pretends to promise to fulfil your desires but does not deliver arrogantly, leaving the viewer to decide what to choose from the myriad of textual options while insisting that they bear the weight of these contemptible and unfaithful stories.

(O)kamemochi exhibition for Atami Art Grand

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