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ROPPONGI CROSSING 2022:
COMING & GOING
DECEMBER 1 [THU], 2022 - MARCH 26 [SUN], 2023

MORI ART MUSEUM (53F, ROPPONGI HILLS MORI TOWER)

A COLORFUL CROSSROADS OF PEOPLE, CULTURES, AND NATURE
AS REFLECTED IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ART TODAY
The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, is pleased to present the exhibition Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going tobe on view from Thursday, December 1, 2022 to Sunday, March 26, 2023.
“Roppongi Crossing” is a series of co-curated exhibitions staged every three years by the Mori Art Museum.
It was first launched in 2004 to provide a snapshot of the contemporary Japanese art scene at a particular point
in time. This seventh edition is to showcase works by 22 Japanese artists (all born between the 1940s and1990s) and artist groups, in an exciting cross-section of creative output by young promising artists as well as
well-established artists recognized in the international art scene.
As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, our lives have changed dramatically. These changes have revealed many
hitherto hidden, or at least hard to see, aspects of Japanese society, prompting us to revisit and reconsider familiar
aspects of our everyday environments previously taken for granted. They have also brought to light the presence
and diversity of those living alongside through these tumultuous times. Now, with people once more on the moveand growing expectations of new cultural creativity, we are reminded of the fact that various ethnic groups do live
in “Japan” and that country already possesses multifarious layers of history and culture. What kind of future can we
now imagine and build together?
The subtitle of Roppongi Crossing 2022 , “Coming & Going,” suggests the need to reacknowledge thatpeople’s inward and outward movements and repeated interactions with other cultures throughout Japan’s complex
history have indeed made this country a place where a wide variety of people and cultures coexist. At the sametime, it also expresses a desire for those “comings and goings” brought to a halt by the pandemic to resume.
It is in this context that we take a fresh, more wide-ranging look than ever at the characteristics ofcontemporary art and creative scene of Japan today, inviting visitors to join us in pondering the imponderable
nature of tomorrow.
[left]O JUN
The Beautiful Nature2019
Oil on canvas
350 x 240 cm
Courtesy: Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo[right]SIDE CORE / EVERYDAY HOLIDAY SQUAD
rode work
2017
Construction light equipment, metal pipe, chain, traffic cone,
helmet, construction wear, video and others
Dimensions variable
Photo: Goto Shuji
Photo courtesy: Reborn-Art Festival 2017, Miyagi

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order of the artists ’ surnames
FEATURED ARTISTS / ARTIST GROUPS ** InThisalphabeticallist of featured artists is subject to change.

AKI INOMATA
Aoki Chie
Aoki Noe
Han Ishu
Ichihara Etsuko
Iha Linda
Ikeda Hiroshi
Inose Naoya
Ishigaki Katsuko
Ishiuchi Miyako
Kanagawa Shingo
KYUN-CHOME
Matsuda Osamu
Oh HajiO JUN
Orimoto Tatsumi
Shindo Fuyuka
SIDE CORE /EVERYDAY HOLIDAY SQUAD
Takeuchi Kota
Tamayama Takuro
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Yokoyama Nami

Born 1983 in Tokyo; lives and works in Tokyo
Born 1981 in Gifu; lives and works in Ishikawa
Born 1958 in Tokyo; lives and works in Saitama
Born 1987 in Shanghai; lives and works in Tokyo
Born 1988 in Aichi; lives and works in Tokyo
Born 1979 in Okinawa; lives and works in Okinawa
Born 1981 in Saga; lives and works in Tokyo
Born 1988 in Kanagawa; lives and works in London
Born 1967 in Okinawa; lives and works in Okinawa
Born 1947 in Gunma; lives and works in Gunma
Born 1981 in Kyoto; lives and works in Tokyo
Formed in 2011; based in Tokyo
Born 1979 in Hyogo; lives and works in Tokyo
Born 1976 in Osaka; lives and works in Wollongong, Australia
Born 1956 in Tokyo; lives and works in Tokyo
Born 1946 in Kanagawa; lives and works in Kanagawa
Born 1975 in Hokkaido; lives and works in Hokkaido
Formed in 2012 / 2015; based in Tokyo
Born 1982 in Hyogo; lives and works in Fukushima
Born 1990 in Gifu; lives and works in Tokyo
Born 1984 in Kanagawa; lives and works in Chiba and KanagawaBorn 1986 in Gifu; lives and works in Aichi

AKI INOMATAHow to Carve a Sculpture
2018Installation
Dimensions variable
Courtesy: Contemporary Art Foundation, Tokyo
Installation view: How to Carve a Sculpture , Contemporary
Art Foundation Secretariat, Tokyo, 2021
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E-mail: pr@mori.art.museum Web: www.mori.art.museum/en

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GENERAL INFORMATION
Exhibition Title: Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going
Organizer: Mori Art Museum
Curated by: Amano Taro (Chief Curator, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery)
Lena Fritsch (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford)
Hashimoto Azusa (Curator, National Museum of Art, Osaka)
Kondo Kenichi (Senior Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Exhibition Period: December 1 [Thu], 2022 – March 26 [Sun], 2023
Venue: Mori Art Museum, 53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Hours: 10:00-22:00 | Tue: 10:00-17:00 | * Open until 22:00 on Tuesdays of January 3 and March 21, 2023.
* Admission until 30 minutes before closing. | * Open every day.
* See the Mori Art Museum website for our countermeasures against COVID-19.
https://art-view.roppongihills.com/en/info/countermeasures/index.html［Weekdays］

Admission:

On-SiteOnlineAdults¥ 1,800

Students (University/High School)［Sat., Sun. & Holidays］
On-SiteOnline¥ 1,600¥ 2,000¥ 1,800¥ 1,200¥ 1,100¥ 1,300¥ 1,200

Children (Age 4 through Junior High School)

¥ 600

¥ 500

¥ 700

¥ 600

Seniors (Ages 65 and over)¥ 1,500¥ 1,300¥ 1,700¥ 1,500* It is encouraged to make advance booking for a designated date/time slot and purchase the admission ticket on the bookingwebsite.
* Admissions without advance bookings will be allowed so far as the time slots have not filled up on the day of your visit.
* All prices include tax.
* Ticket also valid for admission into the following Mori Art Museum small programs to run concurrently:
MAM Collection 016: Meditating on Nature - Hisakado Tsuyoshi, Po Po, and Umetsu Yoichi ; MAM Screen 017: Nancy Holt andRobert Smithson ; and MAM Project 030 x MAM Digital: Yamauchi Shota .
* Admissions to Tokyo City View, Sky Deck and Mori Arts Center Gallery are separate.

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THREE KEYS TO UNLOCKING THIS EXHIBITION, EXAMINING OUR
SOCIETY MADE VISIBLE BY THE PANDEMIC
Using the COVID-19 pandemic as their starting point for discussion, the team of four Roppongi
Crossing 2022 curators is structuring the exhibition around three topics worth close examination in2022.

1. Taking a Fresh Look at Familiar Aspects of Our
Everyday Life
The pandemic has made us far more aware of familiar phenomena andaspects of day-to-day living, an extension perhaps of the heightenedinterest in nature and the environment in Japan following the Great East
Japan Earthquake of 2011. It is up to us to now channel this greaterawareness into our thoughts about the future.
Among the highlights of Roppongi Crossing 2022 will be AKI
INOMATA’s series of sculptures made of lumber chewed by beavers;
the work of Ichihara Etsuko, who imagines a fantastical future based on
pandemic-prompted lifestyle changes; Tamayama Takuro’s installations
that transform our everyday surroundings; the large-scale sculpturesof Aoki Noe, inspired by natural phenomena; and an installation byTakeuchi Kota including photos taken in Fukushima ’s radioactive
exclusion zone.

2. Living with a Variety of Neighbors
Remote communication has given us more working style options, evenin many cases allowing one to live across multiple locations. In thisway, the changes brought by the pandemic have varied depending on
individuals and their personal circumstances, their home environment,
and/or the social conditions, and we have come to realize the how
diverse our neighbors are.
This exhibition will feature the paintings of O JUN, who examines achanging world to depict many kinds of neighbors; portrait photography
by Kanagawa Shingo, who reunited with his then-missing aunt andafterwards documented her in photographs; and a video by KYUNCHOME that depicts the lives of transgender people. Amid a rapidlygrowing list of initiatives with “diversity ” and “LGBTQ+” concerns inmind, this exhibition contemplates the ways in which various kinds ofpeople live together in today’s society. It also seeks to grasp people’s
subtle differences rather concealed in the shadows of these trending
terms.

Ichihara Etsuko + ISID / INNOLAB
Namahage in Tokyo 2017
VR headset, drone, gas mask, electronic parts, plastic
model, straw and others
Dimensions variable* Referential image

Aoki Noe furisosogu monotachi / nagasaki (all thatfloats down / nagasaki)
2019 Iron, glass 580 x 1,370 x 1,500 cm
Installation view: furisosogu monotachi / nagasaki (allthat floats down / nagasaki ) , Nagasaki Prefectural Art
Museum, 2019
Photo: Yamamoto Tadasu
Photo courtesy: ANOMALY, Tokyo* Referential image

Kanagawa Shingo for a while
2011 Inkjet print 28.3 x 35.7 cm

KYUN-CHOME
Until My Voice Dies2019 Video 32 min.

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3. Shining a Light on Japan’s Cultural Diversity
The pandemic may have halted the flow of people coming into thecountry, but those with roots overseas residing in Japan are still aneveryday sight. Previously somewhat ‘ masked ’ by the inbound tourism
boom, it could be argued that it has become more apparent howmany people from different backgrounds and ethnic groups live
together in this country. In retrospect, through the long history ofcomplex events and political changes, Japan has indeed become aplace where people of different origins - Ainu, Okinawan, Chinese,
Korean, just to name a few - live together. Amid a growing worldwide
trend for reappraisal of the previously ethnically and culturally
marginalized, isn’t it the high time to shine a light on Japan’s longstanding cultural variety, and to contemplate a new era of evengreater diversity and cultural celebration?
At Roppongi Crossing 2022 , opportunities to doing exactly thatinclude Ikeda Hiroshi’s video installation featuring members of theAinu community; photographs by Ishiuchi Miyako capturing her homeof many years and neighborhood just before moving away; Oh Haji ’s
textile renderings of travels by sea; Han Ishu ’s works similarly on thetheme of migration and relocation; and works by Okinawan artists
Ishigaki Katsuko and Iha Linda.

Ikeda Hiroshi
Shinsuke Shiiku July 2022, Shibetsu2022
Digital dataDimensions variable

Oh Haji
Ama ’s home/boat floating on memory with the colour ofemptiness2018
Used ramie and cotton clothes from Kanazawa, linen yarn,sinker, fishhook, cyanotype print
Dimensions variable
Installation view: Culture City of East Asia 2018: Kanazawa
Altering Home , 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,Kanazawa
Photo: Kioku Keizo* Referential image

The latest exhibition press images are available on our website for downloads:
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