Live Phenomenon
From the wild that wells up within, and from the resonance with the land’s climate, landscapes, materials, and human relationships that surround us, emerges a form of “living creation.” This is the way of making that we practice.
Today, design activity is expanding from the cities into the regions, where creativity rooted in local ties is nurturing new value. Based in Kyoto and Fukui, we too look closely at our respective regions, touch them, and continue creating while transforming them into our very flesh and blood. Such practice shakes the existing frameworks, and should renew creativity across the urban, the rural, and even the global.
Like cells that are autonomous yet interconnected, this stance is what we believe poses new questions to the design of cities. For now, we call this endeavor “Live Phenomenon.”
Outline
This exhibition is an attempt to embody our mode of creativity, “Live Phenomenon,” in the familiar and universal presence of the chair.
A chair supports the body, shapes relationships, and stands as a symbolic object linking daily life with creativity.
In the exhibition, photographs reflecting the landscapes of the places we live will be placed alongside the chairs, allowing the space itself to emerge as a singular landscape.
Each chair, resonating with a different landscape, reveals diverse forms of creation that transcend regions and generations.
Because the chair is something anyone can touch, sit on, and respond to with their own body, we hope to share with visitors the “living creation” that arises there.
Members
“SEN,” a collective based in Fukui, explores new value starting from local culture and materials, with four members participating in this exhibition. “SIBO,” a Kyoto-based unit of five groups, engages in creativity through diverse perspectives, drawing on their different areas of expertise. Though their bases and specializations differ, all are of the same generation—in their late twenties to early thirties and in this exhibition, their shared creative attitude intersects and resonates.