[Special Exhibition] "Count the Waves — Connecting the Invisible" @ Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts

“Count the Waves — Connecting the Invisible”

As part of the “Art Producing Practicum” course taught by Professor Yuko Hasegawa at Tokyo University of the Arts, a special exhibition co-curated by five master’s-course students in the Curatorial Studies field of the Graduate School of Global Arts (Arts Producing) was held.

Titled “Count the Waves — Connecting the Invisible,” this exhibition takes “invisibility” as its theme and introduces 14 artists and designers from Japan and abroad.

Exhibition Concept
The exhibition title “Count the Waves” is a metaphor for the act of trying to grasp “the invisible,” as though counting the endlessly overlapping waves that keep breaking on the shore.
Entering the 21st century, the internet — which has become the foundation of digital communication — has produced both hypervisibility and anonymity, creating the illusion that only what can be viewed there truly exists.
At the same time, “invisible” things — time (past and future), human emotions and intentions, the unknowns that humanity can never reach — are always present in our lives.
This exhibition takes up works that give presence to “the invisible,” asking how we perceive the traces of what cannot be seen (or how we merely think we perceive them).
By confronting that question through the exhibition, we explore the invisibility that lurks between contemporary society and the people who live in it, and the shape of new “connections” that emerge.

Things in our daily lives that we cannot see, uncertain things, things that make us ask whether we are really seeing them at all… the experience was one that swirled and unsettled the sensibilities within us.