Kishin Shinoyama, Tomoko Yoneda, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Nodoka Odawara, Goro Murayama, Marja Pirilä, Satoko Sai + Tomoko Kurahara
What kind of “memories” have people strived to capture through photography and video? Asides from snapshots and documentaries whose purpose are to record events and happenings onsite, attempts have also been made to convey unseen memories by stirring the emotions and sensations of viewers, and expanding their imagination beyond realms of both time and space. While employing the characteristic of photography/video as that which serve to connect the memories of others or images engraved in time with the viewer's own memories, artists each approach their work and practice in truly diverse ways. Taking as its starting point Shinoyama Kishin’s propositions raised in Dueling Theories of Photography (1976) and leading up to themes such as aging society and artificial intelligence (AI), this exhibition introduces more than 70 new works by seven groups of eight high-profile artists from Japan, Vietnam, and Finland, including those never exhibited in Japan.