Imura art gallery tokyo will present "Where has yesterday gone?", an exhibition by Takayoshi Tsuchiya + Kentaro Ataka.

This exhibition is the sequel of the media installation collaborated by Takaya Tsuchiya (an artist) and Kentaro Ataka (an architect) back in the spring 2013. It featured the renovation of the gallery space until the reopening, and it turned out to be quite successful.  This sequel is comprehensive with the addition of the segment after the opening of the gallery space, and shows the whole timeline through the opening to the close down of the gallery space.  As if to peel off thin layers of skin, the projector shows the layers of the past as it turns real size images every minute.

The images were taken with the camera set up in the middle of the gallery space, and the camera was turned 15⁰ at regular intervals for the period of a year and a half.  Thousands of those images were connected together and the resulting long image is continuously projected on the same spot where it was originally photographed, using "the projector that revolves one time per minute".   As the projector revolves, it projects the walls being taken down, new walls being built, the walls being painted, and the exhibition being held.  The image eventually (like human memory does) starts going back and forth through the time line, and goes back to where it started, the gallery before the renovation.

■Supported by Mr. Hiroto Hata (photographer) and Mr. Makoto Akihiro