In 1966, On Kawara began his lifetime series of paintings each of those only subject is the date of the very day he painted it. Since then, the New York ­based Japanese artist had never presented himself in public until his passing in 2014. Taking this sustained invisibility as the key, Yuki Okumura considers Kawara’s whole practice as a single, five-decade­long performance where the performer’s body was constantly absent and therefore his current state always oscillated between life and death, while his work served as the evidence of his certainly being alive on the past dates. 

Yuki Okumura's performance titled “On Kawara's Pure Consciousness, or Many Worlds (and) Interpretation—And Then, Silence Arrives” will take place at Colonie Yan Bina, at 8.30 pm on April 26