JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles
SPRING EXHIBITION
Symbiosis: Living Island
Inujima “Art House Project” A-Art House | Beatriz Milhazes: Yellow Flower Dream, 2018 | Photo by Yoshikazu Inoue, Courtesy of Fukutake Foundation
New Exhibition Explores the Pioneering “Art House Project”
Revitalizing the Japanese Island of Inujima Once a hub of industrial activity, Japan’s tiny Inujima Island in the Seto Inland Sea is now home to just twenty-five households, with more than half the inhabitants over seventy years of age. But in 2008, the island was transformed by becoming one of the locations of the celebrated Benesse Art Site Naoshima project, now one of the world’s foremost contemporary art tourism destinations and an example of how art can regenerate communities.
In the upcoming exhibition “Symbiosis: Living Island”, JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles invites you to experience the unique symbiosis between art, architecture, community, and ecology that has energized the island. Inujima “Art House Project” artistic director Yuko Hasegawa (director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa) has curated this exhibition, designed by her Injujima collaborator, the eminent Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kazuyo Sejima (founding partner of the firm SANAA), to capture the essence of the island and its integration of art, including works by artists featured on Inujima like Beatriz Milhazes (Brazil), Haruka Kojin and Yusuke Komuta from Japan, as well as images by renowned Japanese photographer Takashi Homma.
Through installations, experiential dioramas and video, the exhibition captures a land where art and daily life are in constant conversation – and might just serve as a blueprint for more symbiotic ways of life elsewhere in the world.
Dates: Saturday, April 15 – Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Hours: Mon – Fri | 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Sat – Sun | 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Location: JAPAN HOUSE Gallery, Level 2
Fee: Free
EXHIBITION CREDITS: Presented by: JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles Curator: Yuko Hasegawa Exhibition Design: Kazuyo Sejima & Associates *Visit the Exhibition Page for Full Credit List