Around the Corner

2025, 4 livestreaming videos projected on 4 corners of the exhibition room, text

When did we become so interested in the corners of rooms?

When we were traveling together a lot overseas, we would often wake in the morning, or dead of night, and not know where we were. Surely a common-enough phenomenon among itinerant artists. We are always in a box, with floor, ceiling, and walls, that doesn’t really change much in any country. That could just as easily be in Ueno, or Egypt, or MoMA.
It is actually corners that artificially split this space without right, left, top or bottom along the XYZ axes, the three surfaces of front, side and floor bumping up against each other.

The corners projected on those of this gallery are the corners as they are right now, of our home and studio in Chiba, Japan.
Footage from there is being streamed in real time. Occasionally you may catch a glimpse of us.

“Around the Corner” also means “close by.” We once received an email from overseas that said, “Japan is not around the corner.”
Though not as distant as overseas, Chiba and Takamatsu are a little far apart to be termed “around the corner.” Yet here we overcome that distance, and the wall between private and public, to connect corners from “now.”
How will it work out, we wonder?

(From the exhibited statement)

EXHIBITION

2025 Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan