Chino Otsuka - Imagine Finding Me and Other Stories

Chino Otsuka was born in Tokyo and moved to England at the age of ten. In much of her work she uses self-portraits as a way of exploring her cultural identity - a double identity that has Japanese origin, yet is also firmly rooted in western culture.

The art of remembering

Otsuka's photographs give an insight into her exploration into the art of remembering. How do we preserve our memories? To what extent are our memories constructed? Can photography help you remember? Can photographs make you forget? These are questions she constantly asks and explores in her work.

Overview and new work

This exhibition brings together more than ten years of her work for the first time, including the new video installations Memoriography 1 & 2. Furthermore, Otsuku has created a new work especially for this exhibition for which she extensively researched and recollected the traces of Japanese people left in 19th-century Dutch history.