I created an art installation on the occasion of the exhibition "Concept of Happiness: Anish Kapoor’s Outline of Collapse" at the EYE OF GYRE gallery in GYRE, a building designed by MVRDV in Tokyo. The installation, HUMAN NATURE: Homage to Anish Kapoor, was suspended through the void space connecting all floors of the building.
Anish Kapoor has exhibited his work in numerous public spaces and art museums all over the world, but this is the first opportunity to present his work in an art space directly connected to a street.
Kapoor expressed a keen interest in this art space directly connected to fashion, people’s daily activities and the streets of Omotesando and Harajuku, and hoped that the spirit of his art would not only stay in the exhibition space but circulate around the entire building.
Curator Takayo Iida, in response to the artist's suggestion, requested me to create an art installation which would serve as a mediator connecting all floors in the building and instigate a dialogue between the spirit of Kapoor's work and the entire architectural space of GYRE.
After the exhibition, this installation relocated to an art gallery converted from a former clinic by Schemata Architects. It was recomposed according to the spatial configuration and transformed into an installation entitled Musubi to intensify expression of the concept of the artwork.