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Society has made strides towards recovering our pre-pandemic everyday routines, as we interact with others, gather, and move about again. Yet just as we were starting to see rays of light, a new disaster has left an imprint in our memories. Each time we are confronted by such events, we feel how precious and fragile everyday life is, while also being reminded of how past memories are pushed deeper and buried by memories of new experiences. In ways large and small, perhaps our day to day is just this process over and over. In this exhibition, six artists consider the repetition of daily life through works that compel us to think about the everyday from a variety of perspectives. Overlooked sights and experiences, or familiar words. Collaboration with someone, somewhere. Recording the day’s important memories and happenings, and ordinary scenes that put us at ease. Each artist’s work offers a window onto the daily lives of others, imbuing our familiar ordinary scenery with new value, and enriching the everyday. The helping hands of others are what restore our bonds with people and society that have been frayed by many stresses. Our daily routines cannot be separated from how people and society relate to—and exert mutual influence on—one another. These artworks explore many ways to feel the presence of others, compelling us to reconsider what separates us from others and society, and see the everyday in a new light.

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IIKAWA Takehiro

Since 2007, IIKAWA has produced works as part of his “Decorator Crab” series, in which he uses words, images, and playground equipment that viewers can touch and move, thereby creating new experiences in unexpected places. Major exhibitions include Decorator Crab: Measuring the Future, Pulling Time (Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, 2023), Decorator Crab: Occurring simultaneously or awareness being delayed (The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, 2022).

SEKIGUCHI Tadashi

SEKIGUCHI writes down words that come to him each day, such as words that arise in conversations with workers, words he hears on TV, or words that happen to stick with him in the course of daily life. Sekiguchi’s personality comes through in the warmth and softness of his writing. He has participated in exhibitions at Kiki!! CREATIVE GALLERY & CAFÉ in Kanagawa in 2023, Goozen Art and Event Space in Kanagawa in 2022.

TSUCHITANI Hiroka

TSUCHITANI began working with iron beads in 2015. Each day, she completes around three artworks, now totaling more than 2,500 pieces. Tsuchitani decides the bead placement, color choices, and application of heat for each piece based on her senses. The name of the series, “COLORNY” is a portmanteau of “color” and “colony.” Major exhibitions include 3331 ARTFAIR 2021 (3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo), HOME PARTY06—Butterflies and Flowers (Mizunoki Museum, Kyoto, 2020).

HARADA Iku

Since around 2008, HARADA has built a virtual utopia on his computer, and paints scenery from the simulated experience he sees in this world. His fusion of reality and the virtual world invites the audience into new experiences. Major exhibitions include MOT Annual 2023: Synergies, or between creation and generation (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2023), The Museum in the Multi-layered World (ICC, Tokyo, 2021), and the public production of Another World Map of 10th Year (Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019).

MIYATA Atsushi

MIYATA’s work draws inspiration from the differences that can be found in relationships with other people through workshops and drawings, such as his Bibuncho book project for children and adults. Major projects include Wakuwaku Na Omowaku (Hajimari Art Center, Fukushima, 2019), BIBUN-BOOKS PUBLISHING: A Bookstore Dealing In Divisional Documents (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, 2019), The Art Museum in the Mysterious Forest (Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010).

YU SORA

YU uses white cloth and black thread to create two-dimensional embroidery works and three-dimensional installations. She raises questions regarding the everyday through her spaces expressed with black and white. Major exhibitions include Mozuku and Eggs (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2023), BankART Under35 2022 (BankART KAIKO, Kanagawa), An Ordinary Day (A-Lab, Hyogo, 2021), A Trivial Anniversary (Lotte Gallery, Seoul, 2018), and others.

TSUCHITANI Hiroka & YU SORA

Apart from their exhibited works, TSUCHITANI Hiroka and YU Sora will create works that can be touched. Please feel the texture of each piece.

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Title	Imagining the unseen everyday
Period	Saturday, 15 June – Sunday, 1st September, 2024
Opening Hours	11:00 AM- 7:00 PM  ※Open until 9:00 PM on Fridays, 19, 26 July, and 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 August for "Summer Night Museum".
Closed on	Mondays (except 15 July, 12 August), 16 July, 13 August
Venue	Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery
Admission	Free
Organized by	Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture

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