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Imagination of Malls
Takashimaya Archives Tokyo
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Akira Yamaguchi, Kei Ono, Mogukon, Ken Oyama et al.
Following the department store exhibition, this year's mall exhibition will examine the cultural significance of shopping malls. In the past, in the context of cultural criticism, malls have often been the subject of criticism as an entity that homogenizes society and oppresses the old shopping streets. However, this exhibition believes that today's malls are rather the soil that nurtures culture, and may even be cultural symbols. That is to say, they are the most important public sphere in the modern city and an integral part of daily life.
Based on the hypothesis that "shopping malls are utopias," this exhibition takes several themes such as "city," "inversion of inside and outside," "utopia," and "backyard" as its starting points, and attempts to decipher how the consumer space of the mall works on the imagination and what kind of cultural values it has created In the exhibition room, along with a vast amount of text, various genres of works set in malls, such as movies, music, comics, novels, and video games, appear as if a scroll were being unwrapped.
Based on the hypothesis that "shopping malls are utopias," this exhibition takes several themes such as "city," "inversion of inside and outside," "utopia," and "backyard" as its starting points, and attempts to decipher how the consumer space of the mall works on the imagination and what kind of cultural values it has created In the exhibition room, along with a vast amount of text, various genres of works set in malls, such as movies, music, comics, novels, and video games, appear as if a scroll were being unwrapped.
Schedule | Mar 4 (Sat) 2023-Aug 27 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Takashimaya Archives Tokyo https://www.takashimaya.co.jp/shiryokan/tokyo/  | ||||
| Location | 4F / 5F Nihombashi Takashimaya, 2-4-1 Nihombashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-8265 | ||||
| Access | Direct walk from exit B1 at Nihombashi Station on the Ginza and Tozai lines, 5 minute walk from Yaesu North exit of JR Tokyo Station, 5 minute walk from exit D4 at Nihombashi Station on the Toei Asakusa line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3211-4111 | ||||
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