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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 to
be 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. First
launched in 2004 to provide a snapshot of the contemporary Japanese art scene at a particular point in time, thisseventh edition in the series showcases approximately 120 works by 22 Japanese artists (all born between the
1940s and 1990s) and artist groups, in an exciting cross-section of both young and promising artists as well asinternationally established veterans.
As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, our lives have changed dramatically. These changes have revealed many
hitherto hard-to-see, or even hidden aspects of Japanese society, prompting us to revisit and reconsider familiar
elements of our everyday environments previously taken for granted. They have also shone a light on the presence
and diversity of those around us, also living through these tumultuous times. With people once more on the moveand expectations of new cultural creativity growing, we are reminded of the fact that various ethnic groups live inJapan and that it is a country whose history and culture is manifold. What kind of future can we now imagine andbuild together?
The subtitle of Roppongi Crossing 2022 , “Coming & Going,” reacknowledges that people’s inward andoutward 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 now coexist. It also conveys a desire forthose comings and goings to resume after the pandemic brought them to a halt.
We take a fresh and wider look at Japan’s contemporary art and creative scene, and invite visitors to join us in
pondering the imponderable nature of tomorrow.
[left]O JUN
The Beautiful Nature2019
Oil on canvas
350 x 240 x 5 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* Referential image

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FEATURED ARTISTS / ARTIST GROUPS * In alphabetical order of the artists ’ surnames
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 Haji
O 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 Kanagawa
Born 1986 in Gifu; lives and works in Aichi

Yokoyama Nami
Shape of Your Words - T.K. 2022
Oil on linen
181.8 x 227.3 cm
Courtesy: Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya/Tokyo

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GENERAL INFORMATION
Exhibition Title: Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going
Organizer: Mori Art Museum
Corporate Sponsors: SECOM CO., LTD., Contemporary Art Foundation,
FUJITEC CO., LTD., OBAYASHI CORPORATION
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, The National Museum of Art, Osaka)
Kondo Kenichi (Senior Curator, Mori Art Museum)

Curatorial Support: The National Museum of Art, Osaka
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 16:00 on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, and until 22:00 on
Tuesdays of January 3 and March 21, 2023. | * Open until 17:00 on Saturday, December 17, 2022. | * 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
Admission:［Weekdays］

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 booking
website.
* 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.
* Audio Guide combo tickets (+ ¥500) are also available for purchase.
* Ticket also valid for admission into the following Mori Art Museum small programs that 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 (indoor observation deck), Sky Deck (rooftop observation deck) and Mori Arts Center Gallery areseparate.

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THREE KEY TOPICS:
EXAMINING ASPECTS OF OUR SOCIETY MADE VISIBLE BY THE PANDEMIC
Using the COVID-19 pandemic as the starting point for discussion, the team of four curators has
structured Roppongi Crossing 2022 around three timely topics.

1. Viewing the Familiar Afresh
The pandemic has made us far more aware of the minutiae of everyday
life and the environments in which we live. This tendency is perhaps
an extension of the heightened interest in nature and the environment
in Japan following the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, andthe Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. It is now up to us tochannel this greater awareness into our thoughts about the future.
Among the highlights of Roppongi Crossing 2022 are: 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 sculptures of
Aoki Noe inspired by natural phenomena; and an installation withphotographs taken by Takeuchi Kota in Fukushima ’s radioactive
exclusion zone.

AKI INOMATA How to Carve a Sculpture
2018- Installation
Dimensions variable
Courtesy: Contemporary Art Foundation, Tokyo
Installation view: How to Carve a Sculpture ,Contemporary Art Foundation Secretariat, Tokyo, 2021
Photo: Kioku Keizo

2. Living with a Variety of Neighbors
Remote communication has given us more working options, evenallowing us to live across multiple locations. The changes brought about
by the pandemic have varied depending on individuals and their personal
circumstances, their homes, and the broader social conditions, and wehave come to realize how diverse those around us actually are.
This exhibition features the paintings of O JUN, who examinesa changing world populated by different types of people; portrait
photography by Kanagawa Shingo, who reunited with his then-missing
aunt and subsequently documented her in photographs; and a video
work by KYUN-CHOME that depicts the lives of transgender people.
Amid a rapidly-growing list of initiatives with diversity and LGBTQ+
concerns in mind, this exhibition contemplates the ways in which various
kinds of people live together in today’s society. It also seeks to grasp
people’s subtle differences that lie concealed under these trending
terms.

Ichihara Etsuko Future SUSHI 2022
Food sample, tableware, conveyor, electronic part,humanoid robot, 3D-printed material, acrylic, wood, andothersDimensions variable

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

KYUN-CHOME Until My Voice Dies
2019/2022 Video 27 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 non-Japanese roots remain an everyday sight.
Previously masked by the tourism boom, it has now become more
apparent how many people with different backgrounds and ethnicities
live in Japan. Due to political changes over the years and complex
historical developments, those living in Japan include people of various
ethnicities - Ainu, Okinawan, Chinese, and Korean, to name but afew. Amid a growing worldwide trend for reappraising the previously
ethnically and culturally marginalized, it is time to belatedly shine alight on Japan’s long-standing cultural variety, and to contemplate a
new era that awaits.
At Roppongi Crossing 2022 , opportunities to do exactly thatare provided by the works such as: Ikeda Hiroshi’s video installation
featuring members of the Ainu community; photographs by Ishiuchi
Miyako capturing her home of many years and neighborhood justbefore moving away; Oh Haji ’s textile renderings of travels by sea;
Han Ishu’s works similarly on the theme of migration and relocation;
and works by Okinawan artists Ishigaki Katsuko and Iha Linda.

Ikeda Hiroshi
Shinsuke Shiiku July 2022, Shibetsu(from the series “ AINU 2019-2022 ” )2022
Digital data
Dimensions variable

Oh Haji
Ama ’s home/boat floating on memory with the colour of
emptiness
2018
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:
https://press.mori.art.museum/en/press-img
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Exhibition-Related LEARNING Programs
CURATOR TALK “CROSS TALK 2022 ” * Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available
For this exhibition, the four curators each recommended artists and together had numerous discussions to finalize
the featured artist list. They will come together to talk about the concepts and topics they found critical in planning
Roppongi Crossing 2022 while also sharing some of the behind-the-scene episodes.
Date & Time: 14:00-15:30, Saturday, December 3, 2022 (Doors open: 13:30)
Appearing: 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, The National Museum of Art, Osaka)
Kondo Kenichi (Senior Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Venue: Auditorium, Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
Capacity: 50 (booking required; first-come basis)
Fee: free (exhibition ticket valid for the day of issue required)
Booking: Mori Art Museum website www.mori.art.museum/en

ARTIST TALK * Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available
The Roppongi Crossing 2022 exhibition-featured artists will talk about their work in the exhibition.
Date & Time: 17:00-19:30, Saturday, December 3, 2022 (Doors open: 16:30)
Appearing: Iha Linda, Ishigaki Katsuko, KYUN-CHOME, Oh Haji, Shindo Fuyuka
Venue: Auditorium, Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
Capacity: 50 (booking required; first-come basis)
Fee: free (exhibition ticket valid for the day of issue required)
Booking: Mori Art Museum website www.mori.art.museum/en

GALLERY TALK

* Conducted in Japanese

Gallery talk by the exhibition curator conducted in a gallery-tour format.
Date & Time: 19:00-20:00, Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Featuring: Kondo Kenichi (Senior Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Venue: Mori Art Museum galleries (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
Capacity: 15
Fee: free (exhibition ticket valid for the day of issue required)
Booking: NOT required (first-come basis; please come to the entrance hall of the exhibition directly)* Please note that the programs are subject to change without prior notice.
* In addition to these programs, a series of on-site programs, including Artist Talks, a Talk Session, a series of Gallery Talks(English / Japanese) by museum staff, Family Hour programs, Access Programs and Art Camp programs, along with some Access
Online Programs are currently in planning. Visit the Mori Art Museum website for the program & booking details and updates.
www.mori.art.museum/en
Inquiries on the Programs: Learning, Mori Art Museum
E-mail: mam-learning@mori.co.jp

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RELATED INFORMATIONAUDIO GUIDE
Use the web-app-based Roppongi Crossing 2022 audio guide for the featured works, and also to access commentaryon the “ Three Key Topics ” courtesy of three guest curators Amano Taro, Lena Fritsch, and Hashimoto Azusa.
* As the guide is via web app, visitors are requested to bring and use their own devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets) and earphones.
Neither devices nor earphones will be available for rent on site.

Available in: English / Japanese Number of Tracks: 15 Length: Approx. 25 minutes
Fee: ￥500 (incl. tax) Produced by: i-Theatre Supervised by: Mori Art Museum

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
Essays by: Amano Taro, Lena Fritsch, Hashimoto Azusa, Kondo Kenichi
Size: A4 variation (28.2 x 21 cm) Number of Pages: TBD Languages: Japanese-English bilingualPrice: ￥3,740 (incl. tax) Date of Issue: Late January 2023 (TBD)
Production: Culture Convenience Club Co, Ltd., Bijutsu Shuppan-sha Published by: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
To Be for Sale at: MORI ART MUSEUM SHOP 53 (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower), MORI ART MUSEUM SHOP (3F,
Roppongi Hills West Walk) and MORI ART MUSEUM ONLINE SHOP (https://shop.mori.art.museum/)

EXHIBITION ORIGINAL GOODS & MERCHANDISE
Mori Art Museum Original Tote Bag+ (in Black)Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going Special Edition
Exclusive to Roppongi Crossing 2022 , this classic cotton tote bag has the Mori Art
Museum logo printed on one side, and the exhibition subtitle on the other.
Price: ￥500 (incl. tax)

Coming & Going Button Badges

front

back

In six different designs featuring the exhibition subtitle and logo.
Eye-catching color gradations add to the appeal of these badges ideal for
decorating a bag or backpack.
Diameter: 57 mm Price: ￥605 (each; incl. tax)

O JUN The Beautiful Nature Long-Sleeved T-Shirt
Long-sleeved T featuring Roppongi Crossing 2022 artist O JUN’s The Beautiful
Nature on front and back. On the front are the line drawings around the peripheryof the painting, and on the back, a print of the painting ’s main image. The
exhibition title is printed down one arm.
Sizes: Small (S), Medium (M), Large (L), Extra Large (LL) * unisex
Price: ￥6,050 (each; incl. tax)

Postcards
Various postcards featuring works in the exhibition will makea perfect souvenir of your visit.
Price: ￥165-￥220 (each; incl. tax)
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[ALSO ON VIEW] MORI ART MUSEUM SMALL PROGRAMS TO RUNCONCURRENTLY WITH THE ROPPONGI CROSSING 2022 EXHIBITIONDECEMBER 1 [THU], 2022 - MARCH 26 [SUN], 2023

MORI ART MUSEUM (53F, ROPPONGI HILLS MORI TOWER)"MAM COLLECTION" IS A SERIES OF DIVERSE, THEME-BASED EXHIBITIONSSHOWCASING THE MORI ART MUSEUM'S PERMANENT COLLECTION.

MAM Collection 016:
MEDITATING ON NATURE - HISAKADOTSUYOSHI, PO PO, AND UMETSU YOICHI
Organizer: Mori Art Museum
Curated by: Tokuyama Hirokazu (Associate Curator, Mori Art Museum)https://www.mori.art.museum/en/exhibitions/mamcollection016/index.html

Hisakado Tsuyoshi
Quantize - Dialogue in Chiangmai
2018Lightbulb, sound, alminium, wood, programming,
electric cable
Dimensions variable
Installation view: MAM Project 025: Apichatpong
Weerasethakul + Hisakado Tsuyoshi , Mori Art
Museum, Tokyo, 2018
Photo: Koroda Takeru"MAM SCREEN" FEATURES OUTSTANDING SINGLECHANNEL VIDEO WORKS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

MAM SCREEN 017:
NANCY HOLT AND ROBERT SMITHSON
Organizer: Mori Art Museum
Curated by: Martin Germann (Adjunct Curator, Mori Art Museum)https://www.mori.art.museum/en/exhibitions/mamscreen017/index.html

Nancy Holt
Sun Tunnels
1973-1976
Concrete, steel, earth
280 x 2,620 x 1,620 cm© 2022 Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art
Foundation / Licensed by ARS, New York, andJASPAR, Tokyo G3056“MAM PROJECT” IS A SERIES OF PROJECTS COMMISSIONNED BY THE MORI
ART MUSEUM PRESENTING CONTEMPORARY ART IN ALL ITS DIVERSITY.
"MAM DIGITAL" REFERS TO ALL THE PROGRAMS PROVIDED BY THE MORI
ART MUSEUM UTILIZING DIGITAL MEDIA AND THEIR PLATFORMS.

MAM PROJECT 030 X MAM DIGITAL:YAMAUCHI SHOTA
Organizer: Mori Art Museum
Curated by: Tsubaki Reiko (Curator, Mori Art Museum)https://www.mori.art.museum/en/exhibitions/mamproject030/index.html

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Yamauchi Shota
The Planet of Faces (rendering)2022
Interactive mixed media installation
System engineers: Sone Koki, Hayakawa Shoto
3D modeling: Kato DaisukeSound: Komatsu Kazumichi