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SEEDS AND ROOTS: HOW TO CULTIVATE A CITY

The group exhibition “Seeds and Roots: How to Cultivate a City” offers a timely survey of emerging and midcareer Japanese artists who are exploring new ways of connecting with nature in urban space. The artists in the show employ a diverse range of practices to do so. Takeshi Yasura, for example, creates installations that bring living organisms, inanimate matter, and technological systems in relation with each other, while Akane Saijo produces giant ceramic sculptures that double as musical instruments. Yoko Daihara, on the other hand, finds inspiration for her intricately woven pictures in everything from video games to potted plants. While most city dwellers go through their lives oblivious to all the ecosystems that surround them, such works plant the seeds for thinking differently about how human activity alters our environment.

TOKYO OPERA CITY ART GALLERY

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery is one of the core institutions of the Tokyo Opera City cultural complex. Established in 1999 as an art museum integrated into urban life, TOCAG presents ambitious projects by Japanese and international artists, architects, and designers. It holds about four special exhibitions a year as well as an exhibition series for emerging Japanese artists called project N. TOCAG is also home to the Terada collection, comprising more than 4,000 works by Japanese artists in various mediums, including substantial holdings of celebrated abstract painter Tatsuoki Nambata. Donated by Kotaro Terada, a partner in the Tokyo Opera City complex’s development, the collection reveals the diverse trajectories that art has followed in postwar Japan.

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