“Flower Child ー Cosmicomics” “Book of Silence”
A painting that functions as a drop curtain, a mannequin, and a signboard that resembles the placard from Italo Calvino’s novel “Les Cosmicomiques,” which was ejected from a nebula a billion light-years away with the message “I Saw You!” The world unfolds “as if a vision of what I used to do is being projected inside a sphere that is constantly expanding at high speed through a space that encompasses the entirety of the microcosm.” The mannequin is like the Flower Children of the Vietnam War of the ʻ60s.
🅦 Yokohama Display Museum entrance window at the ground level of the store
Arte Yokohama, 1-8 Ohno-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama
10:00–17:30
Closed on Sundays and irregular holidays (Entrance window can be viewed from the outside anytime of the day)
Tel: 045-441-3933
https://www.displaymuseum.co.jp/
Stamp available
Mio SHIRAI
Since the late 1980s, Shirai has been working in multiple media such as sculpture, painting, and video, and has exhibited both in Japan and abroad. Major exhibitions include “Mio Shirai, Clearing In Woods,” Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo (2023-24); “Chiba City Museum of Art Collection Exhibition, Special Feature: Mio Shirai” (2024); “Aichi Triennale” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (2013); “Forever Afternoon,” Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, UK (2008); among others.