CINDY MOCHIZUKI: stories best told at twilight
September 07 – November 17, 2024
CINDY MOCHIZUKI: stories best told at twilight
Some stories are best told at twilight. As the sun sets below the horizon and darkness emerges, the veil lifts between the everyday and the spirit realm. Supernatural creatures inhabit our world: haunting dreams and lullabies, appearing in the pages of legends and recounted through the memories of elders. This magic manifests in the whimsical storytelling of artist Cindy Mochizuki.
stories best told at twilight focuses on the artist’s telling of Japanese myths, legends and folklore. Each artwork—which might manifest as a short animation, an elaborate installation or a singular performance—is the result of an abundance of images and objects that came before. This solo exhibition goes behind the curtain, taking a rare look at the artist’s usually hidden creative process and spanning artworks created over more than a decade.
Images: Installation view of Cindy Mochizuki: stories best told at twilight, exhibition at the Gallery at Evergreen Arts, Evergreen Arts, 2024. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.
About The Artist
Cindy Mochizuki creates multimedia installations, audio fiction, performances, animation, and drawings. Her works explore the manifestation of story and its relationship to site specificity, invisible histories, archives and memory work. She has exhibited, performed and screened her work in Canada, the US, Australia and Japan. Recent exhibitions and screenings include the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver; Kamloops Art Gallery; Nanaimo Art Gallery; Vancouver Art Gallery; Frye Art Museum, Seattle; and Yonago City Museum, Japan. She was the recipient of the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award in New Media and Film (2015) and the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts VIVA Award (2020).
Mochizuki has worked as a scenographer and dramaturge and has created animation design for theatre and dance companies, including Theatre Replacement, Dreamwalker Dance Company, Little Onion Puppet Co., Lisa Mariko Gelley, Rumble Theatre, the Arts Club Theatre and Theatre Calgary. Her community-engaged projects include Hato-bue Choir, Tonari Gumi, Vancouver; Magic School, Daisen Laboratory, Japan; Things on the Shoreline, Access Artist-Run Centre, Vancouver; and Shako Club, grunt gallery, Vancouver. Mochizuko received her Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies through the School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, in 2006.