chain and ask

2026

An installation exhibition featuring a re-edited version of a work created in 2023. Keys left behind in the city—their meaning transformed and inverted through forbidden methods.
Presented at Laidbug Gallery as part of a collaborative project with the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions.

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"I turn my thoughts toward time that has passed. Everything slips away; countless moments unfold outside of me, only to vanish into oblivion—moments, memories, times, and spaces belonging to people I have never met. Urban environments, governed by strict control and regulation, erase such traces of sentiment with dizzying speed, overwriting them in an instant. Yet, precisely for this reason, fragments of others’ lives remain—scattered here and there, subtle and overlooked. By attempting to collaborate with these remnants, I connect with—and call to mind—those times, spaces, and the strangers I never encountered. I do so, time and again, through a diverse range of methodologies.”