“Imagining the Unseen Everyday” Exhibition Set to Debut in Shibuya

The exhibition “Imagining the Unseen Everyday” will be held at Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery in Tokyo from June 15 (Sat) to September 1 (Sun).

The exhibition will rethink the way people and people, and people and society, interact in everyday life through the works of six artists who evoke everyday life from a variety of perspectives, and rethink everyday life from new perspectives. By coming into contact with the daily lives of others as seen through the works of each artist, we recognize that we cannot talk about daily life in isolation from the relationship between people and society, but that we can say that they interact with each other in some way. At the same time, the aim of this exhibition is to make the usual scenery, with its preciousness and fragility that we feel anew in times of disaster such as the Corona disaster, take on new value and enrich our daily lives.

The exhibiting artists include Yudai Iikawa, who has developed the installation “Decorator Crab,” in which the viewer creates a new experience by touching the work, Tadashi Sekiguchi, who softly strings together words that come from within the artist himself, Koka Tsuchiya, who creates “COLORNY,” a work using iron beads, Iku Harada, who depicts the landscape of a virtual utopia created on a computer; Atsushi Miyata, whose workshops and drawings are inspired by the differences in relationships with others; and Yu Sola, who questions the meaning of the everyday from a space expressed with white cloth and black threads. Admission is free.

Also on view during the exhibition are the works which can touch by audience created by Tsuchiya and Yoo, and Iikawa’s “Decorator Club: New Audience,” in which viewers themselves carry the “bags” of the exhibition room to another venue. Harada will conduct a participatory workshop “Window of Empathy,” in which participants will draw “window paintings,” which will be exhibited/published in a gallery in the virtual world. Miyata will develop a pop-up cultural center “Bibun Book Center” in the gallery’s exchange space, where visitors can experience a small book “Differential Book” and other “stories made by everyone”. In addition, from July 3 (Wed.) (tentative), “Nichijo Radio,” an audio content in which exhibiting artists and curators talk about their daily lives and exhibited works, will be available on YouTube podcasts from time to time.