"Absent City" Exhibition

Gallery Within Assistant

Finished

Artists

Megumi Matsubara, assistant, Sebastian Mayer, ILPO

"Absent City: the City That Does't Exist" is a memoir of Tokyo expressed as a space. The story is accompanied by the experiences of a certain substance that poses the questions "Who am I?" and "Where am I ?" In this story, as a form of harmonious prophecy, the past is extended while the future appears repeatedly. The story takes place between strangers and acquaintances, between scenery and memory, between streets and events that take place on them, between overheard sounds and music, between carefree chat and articulated thought, between prophecy and realization, between sense and awareness, and between the extended past and passed future. While the plot begins with author Megumi Matsubara's first-person point of view, the realm of the memoir expands into broader urban descriptions made from a personal standpoint. The elements of the story spread out so reality contains fiction, the context of which is composed of the author's self - into which otherness has been incorporated - and it also draws in figures such as photographers, musicians, painters, architects, fortunetellers and academics. The scenario moves ahead of its own accord, almost mechanically, floating between reality and prophecy. The exhibition transfigures on its own terms, takes place repeatedly, and renews its chapters only to integrate itself into the story as it progresses.

This inaugural exhibition presents a spatial environment that brings together episodes written between January and May 2008. It recalls the future of a Tokyo that ran away long ago.

-Preview: June 6th (Fri) 19:00-

Schedule

Jun 7 (Sat) 2008-Jun 12 (Thu) 2008