CAMP: Yoshiko Shimada + BuBu de la Madeleine, Ming Wong, Watermelon Sisters [Yu Cheng-Ta + Ming Wong], Yuki Kihara

The artists participating in the group exhibition CAMP have a keen critical eye for social structures. With an established artistic practice behind them, these artists recognise the power of a certain sensibility be-yond pure intellect to move people's hearts and minds. CAMP is the one sensibility they all have in common - the exaggeration of style and of artifice in objects and people. Camp connotes a love of such unnaturalness. This aesthetic, often embraced by queer individuals, fearlessly and boldly expresses itself with a playful innocence, even in this time when conflicting ideologies are all around us.

The world is currently in a state of turmoil due to the new imperialistic behaviour of powerful nations. However, despite the world's anxiety, the Camp, which does not favour tragedy, is pushing forward through the chaos in full ironic style, pursuing its own aesthetic. We are irresistibly drawn to these artists because of their independence, elegant strength, and because we cannot help but admire their sensibility. Despite Sontag's essay, Notes on 'Camp', being published 60 years ago, to this day, Camp continues to strongly fascinate us.

*The information on each artist's concurrent exhibition is as follows.