Yukiko Nishino
MFA ’16 Film/Video
In my grandmother’s story, there were always wars during her youth. She experienced the atomic bomb but survived. The train car she was on stopped, and some people screamed when the bomb fell. Because she is my grandmother, this story was familiar yet too graphic for me. Our elders rebuilt cities of capitalism after everything was destroyed.
It is always close. Everytime. We must address the challenges we face: wars, conflicts, arguments, fights, capitalism, or socialism. We create and destroy, again and again. This video represents what we create after stripping everything away. Do we create and destroy ourselves? What should we create next?
Yukiko Nishino is an artist who mainly focuses on female issues of personality in her video works. Nishino earned a BFA in the Filmmaking School at Osaka University of Arts (OUA) and an MFA in Film and Video at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her own visual and conceptual language emerges from her awareness of the subconscious mind in regards to identity. She currently lives and works in Tokyo.
