Hikaru Takata "Chain and ask"
Laid Bug
Starts 2/15
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Hikaru Takata
From February 15, 2026, LAID BUG will present “Chain and ask,” a solo exhibition by Hikaru Takata. This exhibition is the latter installment of “00:00,” a relay exhibition held as part of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions – Regional Partnership Program.
Hikaru Takata is an artist who works across various media—including photography, video, performance, and installation—while engaging with records of urban exploration and fieldwork, as well as the personal memories and introspection that accompany those experiences. Takata has previously exhibited works at the Ichihara Lakeside Museum (2018 / Ichihara, Chiba), HAITSU (2021 / Nishi-Ogikubo, Tokyo), LAID BUG (2023, 2024 / Daikanyama, Tokyo), HVW8 Gallery (2024 / Berlin, Germany), and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2025 / Kanazawa, Ishikawa).
In this exhibition, Takata presents a reconfigured installation version of “Chain and Ask (2023),” a work developed from ongoing fieldwork and focused on bicycle locks that have been forgotten on city guardrails. We warmly invite you to view this exhibition.
“I direct my thoughts toward time that has passed. Everything passes away; outside of myself, countless ‘nows’ pass by, are forgotten, and disappear. People I have never met, and their memories, times, and spaces. Urban spaces are managed and controlled, and at a dizzying speed they relentlessly erase and overwrite such sentiments. Yet precisely because of this, traces of others are left behind here and there, in small and trivial ways. By attempting to collaborate with such objects, I connect to and recall those times, spaces, and unknown others. At each moment, through every possible methodology.”
Hikaru Takata is an artist who works across various media—including photography, video, performance, and installation—while engaging with records of urban exploration and fieldwork, as well as the personal memories and introspection that accompany those experiences. Takata has previously exhibited works at the Ichihara Lakeside Museum (2018 / Ichihara, Chiba), HAITSU (2021 / Nishi-Ogikubo, Tokyo), LAID BUG (2023, 2024 / Daikanyama, Tokyo), HVW8 Gallery (2024 / Berlin, Germany), and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2025 / Kanazawa, Ishikawa).
In this exhibition, Takata presents a reconfigured installation version of “Chain and Ask (2023),” a work developed from ongoing fieldwork and focused on bicycle locks that have been forgotten on city guardrails. We warmly invite you to view this exhibition.
“I direct my thoughts toward time that has passed. Everything passes away; outside of myself, countless ‘nows’ pass by, are forgotten, and disappear. People I have never met, and their memories, times, and spaces. Urban spaces are managed and controlled, and at a dizzying speed they relentlessly erase and overwrite such sentiments. Yet precisely because of this, traces of others are left behind here and there, in small and trivial ways. By attempting to collaborate with such objects, I connect to and recall those times, spaces, and unknown others. At each moment, through every possible methodology.”
Schedule | Feb 15 (Sun) 2026-Feb 28 (Sat) 2026 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Feb 15 (Sun) 2026 17:00 - 19:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.laidbug.com/art-gallery/exhibition/chain-and-ask | ||||
| Venue | Laid Bug http://laidbug.com/ | ||||
| Location | BF, 2-3, Daikanyamacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0071 | ||||
| Access | 7 minute walk from the New South exit of JR Shibuya Station, 8 minute walk from Daikanyama Station on the Tokyu Toyoko line, 11 minute walk from exit 2 at Ebisu Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||
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