Still Image from Alex Ito HALF LIFE (2020)

Screening & Gallery Talk: Alex Ito X Howie Chen
Saturday, February 22, 2025 from 2-4pm
525 West 26th St, Ground Floor

Join SEIZAN Gallery for a special screening of Half Life (2020) by Alex Ito, followed by a conversation with curator Howie Chen.

In commemoration of Day of Remembrance (February 19)—marking the issuance of Executive Order 9066 in 1942, which led to the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II—SEIZAN Gallery presents Ito’s Half Life. This 12-minute video work dreamily weaves together 3D animation and footage from the artist’s visit to Gila River, Arizona, where his grandparents were incarcerated, alongside imagery from a nuclear waste site in New Mexico, Trinity Site at White Plains Missile Range and a family home.

Following the screening, Howie Chen, director and curator at 80WSE Gallery (NYU), will engage in a discussion with Ito about his ongoing exploration of family memory, war, and displacement. The talk will also delve into Ito’s works currently on view in SEIZAN’S group exhibition LIFE STUDIES, including Western Verbiage V (Risk Management)—a site-specific assemblage in dialogue with works by Miné Okubo and Hiroshima-based photographer Aya Fujioka.

A mixer with refreshments will follow the talk.

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