Affinity90: Charity Event

To create this kind of exhibition, many different combinations are continuously formed. Through close connections with one another, shared approaches are explored again and again, sometimes defining the spirit of the time and sometimes pushing its limits.

This exhibition aims to reduce the way a single system or framework can narrow how works are viewed. It removes the usual structures that control and manage the experimental process of making an exhibition, and instead brings forward the artists’ detached, observant ways of seeing familiar things as unfamiliar. The works are shown on their own, regardless of theme, reflecting each artist’s way of thinking. Through  new approaches to arrangement and placement, the works of 77 artists will be installed one after another within a limited space. This will create shifting relationships between works, spatial settings, and chance events, as well as moments of collision and mixing between artist and artworks. These close interactions within one space will lead to new forms of closeness and proximity.

Because much of this is left to the artists’ independent choices rather than prior discussion, attention must be paid to the role of chance as it unfolds. Taken as a whole, the exhibition offers a way to grasp the character and tendencies of the gallery; that is, its identity.

Events in social life, moments of awareness sparked by unfamiliar experiences, crowd psychology, and private desires and inner feelings all encourage us to see the everyday in new ways. Even if the works are not entirely new in form, the many different pieces in the exhibition space will each continue to play their own role.