Touch

Bus-Dori Tokyo Spring 2008

Touch is an exhibition of small works by 9 artists housed in a gallery-like setting in Tokyo, which continues to be used as a living space. The criteria for the exhibition were those that paid particular attention to the cross-fertilization of ideas and retinal values in their different concrete manifestation. The artists come from both sides of the US, London, and one, the host, a resident of Japan. While each artist was responsible for choosing their piece for the exhibition, portability was set as a requisite by the host. In this way, the artists were otherwise active participants to forming and building the cohesiveness, or discontinuity, which would only reveal once the exhibition was in place. The chosen artists work abstract, or non-objective; their practices contingent on both concept and the visual.
It was envisaged that each work should perform as a poem—a western poem that could be read in an eastern setting. The visual poems perform as breaths in an environment where the air and light could mix between and be visited or lived through. The attendant focuses and slippages could create a garden. The casual visitor, or returning dweller could bear witness to the visual growth, an interpolation of the different sounds and frames as they spring forth, which impress at their local speeds.

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items are from between 10 Feb 2008 & 29 Apr 2008.