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Erika Tan The exhibition 'A Gift to Those...' is the result of an exchange of two artists between the UK and Japan, undertaken to celebrate the 150th anniversary of formal links between the two countries. Tokyo-based artist Mio Shirai and London-based Erika Tan each spent the summer of 2008 in the other's country of residence, undertaking a journey of discovery to unpick what cultural connections exist between Japan and Britain, and what separates them.
'A Gift to Those... ' takes its title from the life-story of one of the earliest known explorers, Ibn Battuta. In 1325 the Moroccan Battuta began exploring the limits of the known world, and spent 30 years travelling some 75,000 miles, gathering knowledge about cultures and countries other than his own. Battuta dictated the story of his travels to a fellow scholar, which took the title 'A Gift to Those...' and also known as simply 'The Journey'. The two artists here follow in his footsteps, creating works that combine observation with speculation about our ability to comprehend the world through travel, exploration, and cross-cultural comparison.
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