Hiroaki Morita “Clockwise” opens at Aoyama | Meguro

Aoyama | Meguro holds an exhibition of Hiroaki Morita’s video, photography and installation work that explore our understanding of time.

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Hiroaki Morita "Clockwise"

at Aoyama|Meguro
in the Nakameguro area
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After opening in 2004, Aoyama | Meguro relocated to this former shipping company's warehouse on Komazawa Dori in Nakameguro last year.

With its large glass front, it is one of the few galleries in Tokyo that makes it really easy for passers-by to walk in by chance.

The centrepiece of this exhibition is Morita's video work, which shows everyday objects realigning to form digital numbers that count the passing time.

Morita's subtly rotating mirror works reflect the visitors at the opening.

Director Hideaki Aoyama shares the space with architectural unit Schemata, which designed the wooden partitions which separate the exhibition space from the ground floor meeting area and the upstairs office space.Hideki Aoyama collaborates with Schemata under the collective name 'happa', and they share the space, but tonight's opening is an Aoyama | Meguro production. Here, a visitor peers closely at Morita's collaged photography work.

In one corner of the gallery's meeting space, Morita's 'Screws' (2002) is on display...These two bent metal screws sticking out of the wall look like they are just static...

... but they are in fact mounted on a hidden motor and are slowly rotating clockwise...... providing Aoyama-san with an interesting conversation piece when his clients suddenly notice the work in the middle of a meeting.

Ashley Rawlings

Ashley Rawlings. Born in 1981 in London. After a year of studying painting and mixed media at Chelsea College of Art & Design, he took on Japanese Studies at Cambridge. He moved to Tokyo in 2005, where he studies the history of Japanese post-war art at Sophia University and works as a freelance writer, translator and editor. As well as writing and editing for TABlog, he writes for the Japan Times and the ART iT website. He is also the editor of Art Space Tokyo, an intimate guide to the Tokyo art world. When not in galleries and museums or taking photographs, he enjoys losing himself in among Tokyo's skyscrapers, wandering silent streets, and riding out the occasional earthquakes. Will only consider returning to Britain once they've fixed the weather. » See other writings

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