21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Humanity faces many serious problems today, including environmental issues, conflicts and wars, poverty and economic disparity, racism, the rights of sexual minorities, immigration and refugee issues, and new infectious diseases. Yet we have experienced many similar problems in the past. On the other hand, we have also laid the foundations for a better future, from scientific and technological advances to social and cultural development over the past several hundred years. As such, the world we live in today is based on an enormous overlapping of time from the past. This exhibition will highlight various aspects of our world by focusing on a range of time periods, including past history and memory, the present, and a future that remains indeterminate. Through painting, drawing, animation, printmaking, and other techniques, the exhibition presents a sharp critique of past events, the history and mythology of the land, the history of colonization and war, connections to the past and the flow of time that is latent in the landscape and nature, and the time that pertains to life in the form of living and dying. On display are works that depict multiple layers of time based on the concerns and interests of each individual artist and the problems that they perceive.