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Anybody Seen the Same River Twice?

Until Apr 26

Artists

Office Yuasa, Studio Yuasa, Gottingham, Ryosuke Yuasa

Like a flowing river, the world we inhabit never remains exactly in the same form. Heraclitus spoke of the irreversibility of time, stating, “No man ever steps into the same river twice,” while Kamo no Chōmei wrote, “The flowing river never stops, and yet the water is never exactly the same.” This exhibition is an attempt to create a vessel—one that allows for the drifting of vision—by, at times, tracing the river’s flow upstream and, at other times, looking further ahead into the unknown.

In contemporary society, our experiences have become more fragmented and are changing at an accelerating pace. The advancement of digital technology has blurred our sense of time and distance, making the boundaries between reality and generation, memory and record, individual and collective increasingly uncertain. As mobility increases and the flow of information accelerates, how do we perceive and assign meaning to the "place" and "space" we occupy? These shifts also affect our perception of physical space, creating intersections between the visible and invisible, reality and the virtual. As social structures continue to transform, where do we position ourselves, and how do we engage with the world?

The exhibited works by Office Yuasa, Studio Yuasa, Gottingham, and Ryosuke Yuasa explore the reversibility of space in response to the irreversibility of time, posing visual inquiries into this relationship through collage, photography, objects, and drawings. As multiple temporal axes intersect—where past and present, individual and collective continuously contend—their works reveal discrepancies in perception and the instability of sensory experience. The exhibition features MacGuffin for a Pedestal by Anri Fujii and Kōhei Matsui of Office Yuasa, along with selected research-based works from Studio Yuasa by Niki Keino and Yoshiyuki Fujiwara. Gottingham presents an installation centered on the theme of “reservation,” while Ryosuke Yuasa exhibits croquis drawings created through a primal process of drawing and erasure.

This exhibition is not merely a presentation space but functions as a catalyst for a ceaseless oscillation of perspectives, akin to a flowing river. Time flows, and space lies within it. Though time cannot be reversed or leaped over, perhaps through space as an intermediary, we may traverse it—repeatedly and in various ways. Amid the multilayered possibilities of space, as we surrender ourselves to the drifting river, how many times, and in what ways, will we cross it?

Schedule

Now in session

Mar 16 (Sun) 2025-Apr 26 (Sat) 2025 18 days left