The 23rd Grant Recipient Christian Vium Photo Exhibition “Revisited” | November 23 – December 1

11/04/2024

We are pleased to present “Revisited,” a photo exhibition by Christian Vium, recipient of the 23rd Reminders Photography Stronghold Grant. This work was selected by the jury, Teun Van Der Heijden.
The artist himself will also be visiting Japan, with an artist talk scheduled on the opening day, November 23. We will continue to share updates on exhibition details through our social media channels, so please stay tuned.
We warmly welcome everyone to visit during the exhibition period.

©︎Christian Vium / Revisited

“Revisited” is a research-based project in three parts, comprising material generated during anthropological fieldwork among indigenous peoples in Central Australia, the Brazilian Amazon, and Siberia.
Over the past decade, Christian Vium uncovered, analysed, and curated a vast selection of archival photographs produced in the period between the 1867 and the 1912. He subsequently repatriated them from collections in Europe and the United States to where they were originally recorded more than a century earlier. In close collaboration with descendants of the indigenous people portrayed in the archival photographs, he conducted in-depth analytical conversations around the images, which came to serve as points of departure for subsequent photographic and filmic re-interpretations of some of the archival photographs. This methodology opened an affective and reflexive space for cultural critique, in which descendants entered an embodied dialogue with their ancestors across time and in space. Through experimental companionship based in long-term research, Revisited contributes new insights into epistemological and ontological questions related to the photographic and moving image.

Christian Vium

＊The Revisited project is made with support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, Aarhus University & the Danish Arts Foundation. This exhibition is made with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation with support from the Royal Danish Embassy in Japan.

Exhibition Information
23rd Grant Recipient Christian Vium Photo Exhibition “Revisited”

◎Dates: November 23 (Sat) – December 1 (Sun), 2024,
1:00 PM – 7:00 PM (open daily)
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: November 23 (Sat), 4:00 PM

◎Venue: Reminders Photography Stronghold Gallery
(2-38-5 Higashi-Mukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo)
Admission: Free / No reservation required

About the RPS Grant
This grant allows selected artists to use the RPS gallery space for up to 15 days at no cost, pending approval by the RPS committee (generally covering two weekends). Eligible applicants include photographers, curators, and gallerists.
The RPS Grant is currently accepting applications until March 31, 2025. For details:
https://reminders-project.org/rps/granten/

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©︎Christian Vium / Revisited

©︎Christian Vium / Revisited

©︎Christian Vium / Revisited

©︎Christian Vium / Revisited

©︎Christian Vium / Revisited

About | Christian Vium
Christian Vium (b. 1980) is a visual artist and Associate Professor in Anthropology at Aarhus University and honorary curator at Moesgaard Museum (DK). He primarily works on long-term research-based projects based on in-depth collaboration and participatory approaches. His work has been exhibited worldwide and encompasses immersive film installations, sound, repurposed archive material, and an experimental approach to photographic image production. Vium is Principal Investigator on the research projects ‘Revisioning the African City from the Periphery’ (Independent Research Foundation Denmark, 2025- 2028) and ‘North Atlantic Everyday Stories’ (Velux Foundation, 2024-2027). In 2023-24, he was Associated Research Fellow at the Film Studies Center, Harvard University (US) and part of the CPH:LAB incubator for experimentation and collaboration in creative, cross-disciplinary partnerships across film, the creative arts, science, technology, and social entrepreneurship (DK).
www.christianvium.com

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