Outline

This exhibition features five artists, creators who, by the very passion they gave to expression, transformed the invisible walls enclosing them into a bridge to new possibilities. For them, expression through art was a necessary action for living. Art became the energy source indispensable to their lives. “Passion can set even the sand aflame,” the poet Issui Yoshida once wrote. The passion displayed by these five people is testimony to the truth in Yoshida’s words.

The five artists’ works—an ensemble of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and films—have almost no elements in common. Yet, they share an unusual affinity: the importance each assigns to “memory.” In our encounter with five creators who never met, we will feel moved to imaginatively enter each creator’s unexpected world. From this chain of experiences, we will derive a deep sense of the beauty and strength of art created as a means of living.