Catalog: Home Sweet Home

This is the catalogue for the special exhibition Home, Sweet Home, held from October 12, 2024, to January 13, 2025.

Exhibition Overview

The word “home” evokes a number of different connotations, including house, family (or group of people who have assembled inside a house), and one’s own town or country. Moreover, the title of this exhibition, Home Sweet Home, has often been used to refer to the beloved place that we call home.

During the “stay-at-home” period of the Covid pandemic at the beginning of the 2020s, we had an opportunity to consider the meaning of home, both in a conscious and unconscious manner. And after the refugee crisis that occurred throughout the world grew even more severe due to a variety of international conflicts and other problems, we were forced to reflect on the nature of a homeland or hometown. What does home mean within the context of the bitter social realities we live in?

In this exhibition, we introduce works by a group of contemporary artists, from both Japan and abroad, who address keywords such as history, memory, identity, the places where we belong, and roles. Through these works, we strive to shed light on the meaning of home (as well as the house and family), the regions that we are a part of, and social changes along with concepts such as universality.

Language: Japanese and English (bilingual)

Pages: 102 pages

Dimensions: 30.2 × 20 cm

[CONTENTS]

Plates: Lydia Ourahmane, Yusuke Kamata, Ishu Han, Maria Farrar, Kei Takemura, Andro Wekua, Umi Ishihara

What Is Home Sweet Home in a Bitter Society? Yuka Uematsu

Archival Photographs Related to Inokuma: Scenes from Hawai and More

List of Works

Biographies

Material: Paper

Language: Japanese and English (bilingual)

Pages: 102 pages

Dimensions: 30.2 × 20 cm