黑料不打烊

The works presented in this exhibition demonstrate the unique ability of artists and artisans to negotiate with contingencies (Guzenzei). They express a pleasure in the encounter (Meguriai) with the personality of materials. They invite us to pay close attention to the soul (Tamashii) of objects and their aging, to accidents, to the transformation of contexts, and to the unpredictability of living beings. These works were conceived as processes, situations, and experiences whose trajectories are deliberately uncertain. This approach allows for a reinterpretation of the processual works that punctuated the 20th century; some, produced on-site in real-time, involve principles of delegation. Certain artists entrusted the realization of their works to third parties, aided by the expertise of Japanese artisans. These artists of contingency attach as much, if not more, importance to what happens by chance, to what is unpredictable and unexpected, as to their initial intentions. The term 鈥淐ontingency鈥� comes from the Latin contingere, derived from contingo, tactum, meaning 鈥渢o touch, to reach with the hand鈥� but also 鈥渢o happen,鈥� 鈥渢o befall,鈥� 鈥渢o occur鈥�1. Sensitivity to contingencies is thus a way of maintaining sensitive relationships with what the present brings.