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We at ANOMALY are pleased to announce the upcoming solo exhibition of works by the sculptor Noe Aoki titled All that floats down – 2025 from May 31 (Sat.) to June 28 (Sat.), 2025.
This exhibition will display Aoki’s newest works that developed on a large scale after that at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum last year and her solo exhibition at Gallery MAZEKOZE in Nagano. It will also be an opportunity to Offering / Hyogo, her latest copperplate print that she produced in connection with a work permanently installed at Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art and will be shown in Tokyo for the first time.
All that floats down, the title this exhibition, symbolizes that we are living in the midst of a flow and circulation, and has often been used as the title for Aoki’s works and exhibitions. In the rapidly changing, unstable world of today, of what does All that floats down speak to us in this exhibition?
Made mainly of iron, Aoki’s works begin with cutting industrial iron sheets into simple shapes (circles and lines) with her own hands, using a fusing torch. Sometimes, the number of parts she cuts out of the plates reaches into the thousands. This process occupies more than 80 percent of the total production time. Thereafter, she welds the cut-out parts together to complete the work. Iron is inside our bodies and is one of the most plentiful elements on earth. For as many as 4,000 years, it has accompanied humankind in the march of civilized society. Aoki’s sculptures are made of this particular material with traces of her cuttings that give us an organic impression and induce a pleasant experience. It is as if the space contains our bodies and the works, and even the earth itself. Her works are open to people who view them regardless of whether or not they have any specialized knowledge of art, and further, to everything that is here.
Aoki has remained vigorously active even after Mesocyclone, the solo exhibition that was held in ANOMALY in 2021, at the height of the pandemic. She held a solo exhibition titled Pillars of Light at the Ichihara Lakeside Museum (Chiba) in 2023. In it, she displayed new works born by letting her imagination fly to the land now at the bottom of the lake and the life that had once been there, in the space formed with a ceiling nine meters high. In addition, because January 2025 marked the 30th year since recovery from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, her Offering / Hyogo was permanently installed in the outdoor space linking the hills and the sea at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, which was designed by Tadao Ando. At her exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, which is freshest in our minds, she displayed works that were based on the Art Deco-style architecture of the building and its historical background. The exhibition finished with works imbued with the thoughts of one living in the present, in the white space of the museum annex designed by Kazuyo Sejima.
In the finite space of her studio, Aoki cannot see the completed state of many of her works; it is only after their installation has been finished that she, too, can get an all-around view of them.
Even more than faithfulness to the minute calculations and plan, Aoki attaches importance to heading for what is beyond the imagination.
We are looking forward to seeing you at this exhibition of new works by Noe Aoki at ANOMALY.
This exhibition will display Aoki’s newest works that developed on a large scale after that at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum last year and her solo exhibition at Gallery MAZEKOZE in Nagano. It will also be an opportunity to Offering / Hyogo, her latest copperplate print that she produced in connection with a work permanently installed at Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art and will be shown in Tokyo for the first time.
All that floats down, the title this exhibition, symbolizes that we are living in the midst of a flow and circulation, and has often been used as the title for Aoki’s works and exhibitions. In the rapidly changing, unstable world of today, of what does All that floats down speak to us in this exhibition?
Made mainly of iron, Aoki’s works begin with cutting industrial iron sheets into simple shapes (circles and lines) with her own hands, using a fusing torch. Sometimes, the number of parts she cuts out of the plates reaches into the thousands. This process occupies more than 80 percent of the total production time. Thereafter, she welds the cut-out parts together to complete the work. Iron is inside our bodies and is one of the most plentiful elements on earth. For as many as 4,000 years, it has accompanied humankind in the march of civilized society. Aoki’s sculptures are made of this particular material with traces of her cuttings that give us an organic impression and induce a pleasant experience. It is as if the space contains our bodies and the works, and even the earth itself. Her works are open to people who view them regardless of whether or not they have any specialized knowledge of art, and further, to everything that is here.
Aoki has remained vigorously active even after Mesocyclone, the solo exhibition that was held in ANOMALY in 2021, at the height of the pandemic. She held a solo exhibition titled Pillars of Light at the Ichihara Lakeside Museum (Chiba) in 2023. In it, she displayed new works born by letting her imagination fly to the land now at the bottom of the lake and the life that had once been there, in the space formed with a ceiling nine meters high. In addition, because January 2025 marked the 30th year since recovery from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, her Offering / Hyogo was permanently installed in the outdoor space linking the hills and the sea at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, which was designed by Tadao Ando. At her exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, which is freshest in our minds, she displayed works that were based on the Art Deco-style architecture of the building and its historical background. The exhibition finished with works imbued with the thoughts of one living in the present, in the white space of the museum annex designed by Kazuyo Sejima.
In the finite space of her studio, Aoki cannot see the completed state of many of her works; it is only after their installation has been finished that she, too, can get an all-around view of them.
Even more than faithfulness to the minute calculations and plan, Aoki attaches importance to heading for what is beyond the imagination.
We are looking forward to seeing you at this exhibition of new works by Noe Aoki at ANOMALY.
Schedule | May 31 (Sat) 2025-Jun 28 (Sat) 2025 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception May 31 (Sat) 2025 17:00 - 19:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://anomalytokyo.com/en/exhibition/noe-aoki-allthatfloatsdown-2025/ | ||||
| Venue | Anomaly http://anomalytokyo.com/en/top/ | ||||
| Location | 4F Terrada Art Complex, 1-33-10 Higashi Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002 | ||||
| Access | 9 minute walk from exit B at Tennozu Isle Station on the Rinkai line, 10 minute walk from the South exit of Tennozu Isle Station on the Tokyo Monorail line, 9 minute walk from the North exit of Shimbamba Station on the Keikyu line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6433-2988 | ||||
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