Borderline: Collection Exhibition I
The sense of strangeness, insecurity, and fear we feel when encountering the unknown. Such feelings come to us as a sign we are about to cross a border. The people with whom we share a language, physical characteristics, rules, and memories we see as 鈥渋nside鈥� our familiar world, and all others we view as 鈥渙utside.鈥� Thus, we unconsciously make a distinction and construct a border separating 鈥渋nside鈥� from 鈥渙utside.鈥� Borders at times repel the outside, as a threat to the security of the inside, and produce conflict. Yet, a border can also be a fluid territory, continually renewed as inside and outside negotiate and discover new rules. Borders can also tell us how we, ourselves, see the world and people outside. Borders, this is to say, can potentially help us broaden our inside world. Taking such perspectives, our Collection Exhibition this time will reconsider the character of borders, not as a cause of 鈥渄ivision鈥� but rather as a means of 鈥渃onnection鈥� and broadening our world. Collection Exhibition I will look at the borders of the body, and Collection Exhibition II, at social and systematic borders.
Life forms, human beings included, have an inside enveloped a membrane. By taking materials from outside into their inside, life forms obtain energy and sustain their life. When it comes to our bodies with their complex organs, one part may actually be an outside that is inside, while another part, an inside that is outside. This kind of a structure, where inside and outside develop by reversing themselves, shows us something of the character of a border. In Collection Exhibition I, taking the most familiar example鈥攐ur bodies鈥攚e will use borders as a means to explore human existence and our relationship with the world around us.
Artists: Rebecca Horn, Kimura Taiyo, Kitagawa Hiroto, Nakashima Harumi, Odani Motohiko, Anne Wilson
The sense of strangeness, insecurity, and fear we feel when encountering the unknown. Such feelings come to us as a sign we are about to cross a border. The people with whom we share a language, physical characteristics, rules, and memories we see as 鈥渋nside鈥� our familiar world, and all others we view as 鈥渙utside.鈥� Thus, we unconsciously make a distinction and construct a border separating 鈥渋nside鈥� from 鈥渙utside.鈥� Borders at times repel the outside, as a threat to the security of the inside, and produce conflict. Yet, a border can also be a fluid territory, continually renewed as inside and outside negotiate and discover new rules. Borders can also tell us how we, ourselves, see the world and people outside. Borders, this is to say, can potentially help us broaden our inside world. Taking such perspectives, our Collection Exhibition this time will reconsider the character of borders, not as a cause of 鈥渄ivision鈥� but rather as a means of 鈥渃onnection鈥� and broadening our world. Collection Exhibition I will look at the borders of the body, and Collection Exhibition II, at social and systematic borders.
Life forms, human beings included, have an inside enveloped a membrane. By taking materials from outside into their inside, life forms obtain energy and sustain their life. When it comes to our bodies with their complex organs, one part may actually be an outside that is inside, while another part, an inside that is outside. This kind of a structure, where inside and outside develop by reversing themselves, shows us something of the character of a border. In Collection Exhibition I, taking the most familiar example鈥攐ur bodies鈥攚e will use borders as a means to explore human existence and our relationship with the world around us.
Artists: Rebecca Horn, Kimura Taiyo, Kitagawa Hiroto, Nakashima Harumi, Odani Motohiko, Anne Wilson
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