DUAL EXISTENCE | Rena Teratani

Dual Existence shows an artist's effort to understand the social complexity of a culture that is not her own. Rena Teratani was born in Osaka, Japan and has been living in New York for the past 15 years. Her artistic practice has become her way of managing self-identification issues. She uses her experience as an immigrant to evoke the cultural conflicts that she faces daily. Trapped in between two very different cultures, Rena Teratani deals with the feeling of anxiety that comes with immigration. This tension is translated in the duality found in her work's structural composition, as constraint and freedom coexist. Dual Existence presents the metaphor of an artist slowly freeing herself from conventions and searching her identity beyond the frame.

Rena Teratani was born in Osaka, Japan and has grown up in New York where she now lives. In 2004, she graduated from Purchase University with Honours BFA in Visual Arts. Teratani has exhibited her work in several group shows in New York such as: Art X Women with Kris Graves Projects @ Affordable Art Fair in 2011 and 100 Artist Exhibition at Ouchi Gallery also in 2011. Dual Existence, presented at Les Territoires, is her first solo exhibition.

image: Rena Teratani, Dual Existence, instalation view, June 2011, photo credt: David Fabrega