Junior Guide from Our Ecology #1: Nina Canell, Tonoshiki Tadashi

2024.1.26 [Fri]

Inside the Our Ecology exhibition, we have set up Junior Guide panels that introduce key points to enjoy the exhibited works.
We are also publishing some of them on the web!
Come to the exhibition, find the panels, and discover more about the artworks.

Nina Canell
Muscle Memory (5 Tonnes)

These scallop shells that blanket the floor were sent from Hokkaido. Large quantities of them are thrown away every year, but they are also used to make building material.
These creatures of nature are eaten by humans, while their shells are crushed to make the material in order to create our living spaces. Let’s ponder this great cycle as we walk on these shells.

Tonoshiki Tadashi
Yamaguchi – Nihonkai - Niinohama, Okonomiyaki related materials

Born in Hiroshima, Tadashi lost his parents early in life due to the atomic bomb, while he himself suffered from A-bomb disease and died at the age of 50. Through Okonomiyaki, which he made by collecting garbage washed ashore and baking it on the beach, he may have been trying to convey to us in the present day the horror of the nuclear bombing, as well as the scene of a razed city engulfed in flames that he saw as a child.