Listen to the Sound of the Earth Turning
Our Wellbeing since the Pandemic

29 June – 6 November 2022
Mori Art Museum

 

The Covid-19 pandemic since 2020 has had no small impact on our ways of living, feeling and thinking.

There’s a pervasive sense that our well-being is at stake now, more than ever.

This show will invite us to contemplate, through the lens of contemporary art, on the question of our well-being in the post-pandemic era.

Wolfgang Laib installing Pollen from Hazelnut at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, 2003
Courtesy: Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya/Tokyo
Photo: Ito Tetsuo
* Referential image

Listen to the Sound of the Earth Turning

The show features 16 artists* from Japan and abroad, along with their works in various media – installations, sculptures, videos, photographs, and paintings.

Exploring themes of life and death, the family, spirituality, individuals and society, these works offer a way to expand our imagination of how to live well after the coronavirus pandemic.

The title of the show, “Listen to the Sound of the Earth Turning” is a quote from Yoko Ono‘s instruction art entitled “EARTH PIECE: Listen to the sound of the earth turning” (1963/1999).

 
*Featured artists (presented in a mixed order of given name/family name)

Ellen Altfest
Aono Fumiaki
Montien Boonma
Robert Coutelas
Horio Akiko
Horio Sadaharu
Iiyama Yuki
Kanasaki Masashi
Kanazawa Sumi
Koizumi Meiro
Wolfgang Laib
Zoe Leonard
Naito Masatoshi
Yoko Ono
Tsai Charwei
Guido van der Werve

Iiyama Yuki
Moomin Family goes on a picnic to see Kannon
2014
Video, slide projection
Photo: Miyazawa Hibiki
* Referential image

Robert Coutelas
Composition of My Nights (Reserved Cards)
1970
Oil on cardboard
Approx. 12 x 6 cm (each)
Photo: Uchida Yoshitaka ＋ Okano Kei, Katamura Fumihito

Kanazawa Sumi
Installation view: 6th Emerging Artists Exhibition: Shadow ⇆ Light, Kawaguchi Art Gallery ATLIA, Saitama, 2017
Photo: Abe Moemi

Kanazawa Sumi
Installation view: 6th Emerging Artists Exhibition: Shadow ⇆ Light, Kawaguchi Art Gallery ATLIA, Saitama, 2017
Photo: Abe Moemi