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This exhibition is a special project by Contemporary Tokyo. Centering the sculptural works of Hiroaki Sato as anchors within the space, it is an attempt — together with six artists active on the front lines of Tokyo’s art scene — to build a temporary sampling station inside this “vertical city.”
[Artist] Hiroaki Sato / Daisuke Hiraoka / Zoe / Yoshiro Kawakami / Takumi Tsuchida / Shiori-chan
[Topologies of Matter｜Hiroaki Sato]
Sato’s sculptures are not mere objects; they function as sampling devices that measure spatial density in real time. Illuminated by spring light, their forms resemble skeletal structures extracted from future ruins or microscopic organisms, embodying the restraint and tension inherent in matter. Serving as a logical base for this laboratory-like space, they present the permanence and solitude that physical matter possesses, right in the midst of spring when all things are in restless motion.
[Overflow of Logic｜Daisuke Hiraoka]
What Hiraoka samples are the sudden “temperature gaps” that lurk within mechanical civilization. The nostalgic robots he depicts are no longer cold, unfeeling tools. In the spring air, heavy with humidity, they become presences that generate an excess of emotion, standing quietly like rusted roses blooming in a forest of algorithms.
[Urban Pulse｜Zoe]
Zoe samples the latent rebelliousness and wildness of Tokyo’s streets. Colors that refuse to be contained by order function in this report as its most active high-frequency signals, symbolizing the life energy and ecstasy erupting from the pressures of urban life.
[Slow Dream Scan｜Yoshiro Kawakami]
What Kawakami captures is the faint dizziness brought by pollen and sunlight on a spring afternoon. Characters suspended in a half-awake state are draped in a kind of sacred melancholy, gently recording the inner worlds of people living in the city, rendered in soft focus.
[Drifting Beats｜Takumi Tsuchida]
What Tsuchida samples is “displacement.” The clusters of signs that dance across the picture plane appear like pulse signals wandering through the city in spring, linearly sampling the rhythm of pedestrians as their pace quickens in the spring breeze.
[Fragments of Sensation｜Shiori-chan]
Shiori-chan carefully gathers the dust and budding moments that have fallen from grand narratives. The visually microscopic fragments of spring that she isolates become the finest and softest sensory parameters in this experiment, subtly complementing and completing the whole.
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