Moving Light, Roving Sight

Moving Light, Roving Sight brings together an array of digital, video, new media and sound works by 9 internationally renowned artists: teamLab, Jenny Holzer, Naoko Tosa, Teppei Kaneuji, Haegue Yang, Takashi Ishida, Oliver Herring, Douglas Gordon and invisible designs lab. The constellation of projections and screens plotted around the exhibition draws the viewer in, encouraging one to ponder in wonderment while meandering within and between the artworks.

Consisting of a walkway and a large open space occupying an entire gallery, ultra-technologist group teamLab’s new digital interactive installation “Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together – Dark” is an immersive yet meditative experience that ruminates on the symbiotic relationship between nature and humanity. “TIMECORD”, a new sound and light installation by Japanese collective invisible designs lab, seeks to condense the long history and activity of the universe, earth and mankind into a single track.

Jenny Holzer’s “TRUISMS (selections from 1977-79)” is a projection showcasing 232 of her famed one-liners which she wrote during her time as a student at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City. Teppei Kaneuji’s offbeat animation “Tower” re-envisions architecture as an organic phenomenon while “Burning Chair” is a moving image by Takashi Ishida in which a natural line propagates itself like a wave. Also shown in the exhibition are Turner Prize winner Douglas Gordon’s “Kissing with Scopolamine”, a 35mm slide projection of the artist confronting his own reflection during a performance in 1994 and a series of 4 video sketches by Oliver Herring from 1998, alongside a new video projection work in 4K resolution by Naoko Tosa and a light sculpture made with a diverse range of materials by Haegue Yang.