Nature brings us both blessings and disaster, and with the progress of civilization there are benefits and negative implications, nature and civilization are continuous and connected. There is no absolute evil or true beauty. There is no easy way to understand, no simple way to arrange our feelings and our sensitivity. We must face every situation as it comes, to not despair, to face forward and go on with life.

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Exhibition Concept
"Ultra Subjective Space".
In Japan everything is "Ultra Subjective", perhaps this can serve as hint for the future. Society, culture, the written word, language, everything is ultra subjective. The subjective has deep roots in the Japanese subconscious and is clearly reflected in contemporary pop culture, especially manga, anime, and from the context of games to their visuals.

In Japanese art space is expressed abstractly and it is often said to be 2 dimensional. But we believe that ancient Japanese actually saw the world as it appears in Suiboku and Yamato-e (Ink painting and Japanese style painting). Modern humans have learned to read the space of perspective paintings and photography, but we believe that when the Japanese of old looked at Suiboku or Yamato-e they actually felt the space in the works. They did not see the works as abstract, 2 dimensional or flat.

In contrast to objective western perspective space, we came to consider that in the planer surface of Japanese painting there exists a different theory of space. We have decided to call that space, “Ultra Subjective Space”.

If there does exist a different theory of space in Japanese painting it should be possible to recreate it. Therefore, we have created a video animation in 3dimensions in a 3dimensional world that reproduces the cognition of space of the ancient Japanese.

By doing so, we believe that instead of viewing a work objectively we can create a new form of visual expression where the viewer becomes part of an ambiguous world that is inextricably associated with the real world. As a result we believe that a viewer will be able to feel the world expressed in the video in a more physical and bodily way. This exhibition is an approach toward such a question.

However, with the development of the internet people have become directly connected and broadcast themselves to the world from their own perspective. With this the long time practice, the cult of the objective as a way to understanding the world has created an impasse. It seems that it is no longer possible to breach the objective view of the world.

In the high information society of the future, will expression, science, and the way we order the world become entirely objective? Is the subjective world no longer necessary?

I think there is possibly a subjective connection between “For the sake of ‘Global Justice’ , the discomfort at starting a war” and “A girl drawn in anime is cuter, (more "kawaii") than the real girl in the photo”.

Perhaps recreating the subjective world can provide a hint for the future to come.