Visiting the SHIMURABROS. studio in Yokohama's trendy BankART Studio NYK, one of the venues used for the 2008 Yokohama Triennale, you might think you had made a blunder and walked into a medical facility. Computer screens showing CT scans line the walls with the only one thing giving the game away — a single TV playing a Mickey Mouse cartoon — although Mickey has been erased out of the picture.
Welcome to the peculiar world of Yuka and Kentaro Shimura — the siblings that make up the award-winning SHIMURABROS.
The duo, who are artists-in-residence at BankART until June, have been creating art, in some form or another, since they were children. Since graduating from university (Yuka from Central Saint Martins in London and Kentaro from Tokyo Polytechnic University), they have been involved in a plethora of projects incorporating film, installations and sculpture.