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September 27, 2024
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi FoundationJam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × MOHRI Yuko–On Physis
November 2 [Sat.], 2024 ‒ February 9 [Sun.], 2025

MOHRI Yuko, Sketch for Piano Solo: Belle-Île, 2024. Courtesy of the artist

The Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation (Director: ISHIBASHI Hiroshi), presents Jam
Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × MOHRI Yuko–On Physis.
The Artizon Museum has held its annual Jam Session exhibition, a collaboration combining
works from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection with works by a contemporary artist, since
the museum opened in 2020. For the fifth Jam Session, we have invited Mohri Yuko, anartist who is attracting attention in the international art scene, to take part.
Mohri’s installations and sculptures use magnetism, electricity, air and dust, water andtemperature to make visitors sensitive to forms latent in the currents and fluctuations of thespaces in which she exhibits.
The title of this exhibition is On Physis. The word “Physis” is an ancient Greek term translated
as “Nature” or “Essence.” It was used in what is known as Early Greek Philosophy inaddressing the question of what the basic principle behind everything might be, afundamental philosophical question today as well.
In this sense, “Physis” was the central concern of Early Greek Philosophy. The surviving
fragments of that ancient philosophy were later collected under the title “On Nature” andused to represent philosophical interest in movement, ongoing motion: the birth,transformation, and disappearance of entities. Mohri’s work overlaps with their interest in
ever-present fluid change.
For this, Mohri’s first large-scale exhibition in Japan, we have brought together both newand old works, and arranged them beside works from the Ishibashi Foundation collection,
creating tranquil organic spaces filled with subtle sounds and movements that can beexperienced nowhere else.
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Exhibition Highlights
1）The First Large-scale Exhibition in Japan of a Leading Japanese Contemporary
ArtistMohri Yuko is renowned for works that combine sculpture,sound, and movement to give form to "invisible forces/events"
floating in space and transform them into something we canperceive. Mohri, who has in recent years participated in manyinternational exhibitions and attracted attention throughout
the global art scene, was chosen to present her works at theJapan Pavilion for the 60th International Art Exhibition of La
Biennale di Venezia (April 20–November 24, 2024). Now thisexhibition, in which previously shown works updated for theArtizon Museum’s spaces interact with new works inspired byworks in our collection, is her first large-scale exhibition inJapan.

MOHRI Yuko, Calls, 2013–, Installation view of “MEDIA/ART KITCHEN: The
Politics of Humor and Play,” 2014, Aomori Contemporary Art Center.
Photo: Oyamada Kuniya. Courtesy of the photographer

2）A View of Nature That Transcends Time: Through “Movement” and “Sound”
The term “jam session” originally meant a gathering ofmusicians who improvised together. Our Jam Sessions are
exhibitons combining works from our collection with works bycontemporary artists, held annually since the museum openedin 2020. For Mohri Yuko, the artist featured in this Jam Session,“improvisation” has been a key word since her debut. Mohri has
incorporated in her art the “errors” and “feedback” found inexperimental music and excluded from conventionallystructured music composition. Here modern works chosen by
the artist, who has been influenced by that musical approachand finds important oscillations, waverings, variations, anduncertainty in her works, are presented alongside works byMohri, making perceivable hidden aspects of the modernworks. Here we showcase the timeless creativity that Mori
shares with Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Georges
Braque, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Cornell, and Fujishima Takeji.
MOHRI Yuko, The Flipping-apparatus, Three Veils, 2018–, Installation viewof “Curatorial Studies 12: Fountain 1917-2017 [Case 5: Dissèmination],”The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Photo: Moriya Yuki. Courtesyof the artist

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MOHRI Yuko, Pleated Image,
2016–

Many corporations and governments are now cooperating in theeffort to achieve SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals thatshould be reached by 2030, adopted by the United Nations
General Assembly in 2015). That means we are now directly
confronting, profound threats to the global environment, complex
environmental problems posed by an industry-led society that hasdeveloped through an emphasis on efficiency, based on control,
and that endorses mass production and mass consumption. We
need fresh thinking now.
“Art thinking,” which fosters creativity by through detours thatallow confusion and reframing, rather than emphasizing clear
goals and efficiency, has recently become a focus of attention on
the frontlines of both business and education.
Mohri’s approach to letting her works be affected by minutechanges in magnetism, electrical currents, air, dust, water, andtemperature, in addition to error and loss of control, can enhance
our sensitivity to flows, changes ungraspable because they aresometimes too large or too small. This attitude seems to offer
modest hints about addressing the global environmental issues
we face today.

MOHRI Yuko
Born 1980 in Kanagawa, Japan. Currently based in Tokyo. Received
an MA in intermedia art from Tokyo University of the Arts. Her major
solo exhibitions have been at the Japan Pavilion for the 60th
International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2024, atCamden Arts Centre in 2018, and at Towada Art Center in 2018.
Participates in biennales and other exhibitions around the world,
including the 14th Gwangju Biennale in 2023, the 23rd Biennale of
Sydney in 2022, and the 34th Bienal de São Paulo in 2021.
Photo: kugeyasuhide. Courtesy of the artist

Learning Program
Saturday Lectures: Artist Talk
Venue: Artizon Museum, 3F Lecture Room
* Both with consecutive interpretation* Advance reservations required
November 2 [Sat.], 2024 10:30am̶12:00pm (door opens at 10:00am）

MOHRI Yuko × Sook-Kyung LEE (Director of the Whitworth, curator of Japan
Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia)
November 2 [Sat.], 2024 2:00pm̶3:30pm (door opens at 1:30pm）

MOHRI Yuko × Vicente TODOLÍ (Artistic director of Pirelli HangarBicocca)* Please check the museum website for the latest information.
https://www.artizon.museum/program
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Works on Display

MOHRI Yuko, Decomposition, 2021–, Installation
view of “Neue Fruchtige Tanzmusik,” 2022, Yutaka
Kikutake Gallery. Photo: kugeyasuhide

Georges BRAQUE, Two Pears and a Peach, 1924, Artizon Museum,Ishibashi Foundation© ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2024 C4674 ★

Left: MOHRI Yuko, Calls, 2013–, Installationview of “Inter-Resonance: Inter-Organics,”
2019-20, Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Square,Sharjah. Photo: Shanavas Jamaluddin.
Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation
Right: Constantin BRANCUSI, The Kiss, 1907–
10, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Left: MOHRI Yuko, I/O, 2011–,
Installation view of "the 14th
Gwangju Biennale,” 2023,
Horanggasinamu Art Polygon,Gwangju.
Photo: glimworkers.
Courtesy of the artist

Right: Paul KLEE,
Mathematical Vision, 1923,
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi
Foundation

MOHRI Yuko, Sketch for Piano Solo: Belle-Île, 2024.
Courtesy of the artist

Claude MONET, Belle-Île, Rain Effect, 1886,Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

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Exhibition Overview
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Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × MOHRI Yuko–On Physis
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation
Artizon Museum, 6F Gallery
November 2 [Sat], 2024–February 9 [Sun], 2025
10:00 - 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays)*Last entry 30 minutes before closing.
Mondays (except November 4, January 13), November 5, December 28–
January 3, 14
Timed entry system(Online booking starts from September 3, 2024)
Online ticket: 1,200 yen
In-Person ticket (purchase at museum): 1,500 yen
Students: Free entry (Advance online booking required.)*In-Person ticket may be purchased at the museum, if the time slot is not full.
*Advance booking is not required for children up to junior high school age.
*This admission fee gives the visitor access to the concurrent exhibitions.

Curators:

UTSUMI Junya, TADOKORO Natsuko

Concurrent exhibitions
Looking Human: The Figure Painting
Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection Special Section Matisse’s Studio
Artizon Museum
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Mohri Yuko’s work can also be seen at the TODA BUILDING, the headquarters of the Toda Corporation, which open in November 2,2024. Mohri was chosen and is taking part as one of the four artists in Public Art Program Vol. 1, which that corporation is holding
as part of Art Power Kyobashi, its art project. Please visit the TODA BUILDING along with her Artizon exhibition.
https://www.apk.todabuilding.com/

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