About the Exhibition

Different Cultures, the Real World and the Imaginary, Adulthood and Childhood...
"The Power to Live" that Emanates from Children Who Move to and fro across
All Sorts of Borders

Photographer Jacob A. Riis, who documented the lives of poor immigrants in New York during the late 19th century, dubbed immigrant children who performed various tasks in acting as bridges for parents with a poor grasp of English, "go-betweens."
This exhibition focuses on the childhood characteristic of moving freely to and fro across all sorts of boundaries - between different cultures, for instance, or between the real world and the world of imagination – in an attempt to look at the world through a child's eyes. Through images of children as they appear in works by 26 of the world's top artists / artist groups, "Go-Betweens" turns its gaze on politics, culture, family and other aspects of the environment surrounding children, and the problems they face. Taking as key words the likes of play, dreams and memories, it also homes in on the diverse sensate nature of children, their creativity unconstrained by adult convention or the bounds of tradition.
Though children are at the mercy of their environment, at the same time their potential to act as circuit-breakers in stalemate situations may well hold the key to our planet's future. By seeing how children cross borders, we explore the possibilities for a new world in which a greater diversity of values coexist.

Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children

Exhibition Period:	Saturday, May 31 - Sunday, August 31, 2014 >>Open Hours
Venue:	Mori Art Museum (53F Ropponngi Hills Mori Tower)
Organizers:	Mori Art Museum The Yomiuri Shimbun The Japan Association of Art Museums
Curated by:	Araki Natsumi (Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Corporate Sponsors:	Toyota Motor Corporation Bonpoint Lion Corporation Shimizu Corporation Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. / Nipponkoa Insurance Co., Ltd. Nippon Television Network Corporation
Production Support:	Canon Marketing Japan Inc.
	Re-board
	IGARASHI-SEIHAKO CO., LTD.
	KAISEI-SHA Ltd.
	FUKUINKAN SHOTEN PUBLISHERS, INC.
Support:	Champagne Piper-Heidsieck
	Bombay Sapphire

Exhibition Touring Schedule:
Nagoya City Museum:
Saturday, November 8 - Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum:
Friday, January 16 - Sunday, March 15, 2015
The Museum of Art, Kochi:
Sunday, April 5 - Sunday, June 7, 2015