damp plosive roam
Sou Suzuki, Sen Takahashi, Yuki Harada
2021-02-06
2021-02-27
Location:
mcg21xoxo
Event Type:
Group Exhibition
The title of this exhibition, "damp, plosive, roam," does not construct meaning through the combination of its individual words. Instead, these words are listed as separate elements, chosen for their ability to evoke physiological and psychological sensations. They serve as indicators to trace the sense of "foreignness" that emerges within urban ecologies.
The exhibition considers the risks of terms like "ethical consumption" and "sustainability," frequently used in advertising today, which may confine ecological goodwill to superficial dimensions. It also reflects on how, during the COVID-19 pandemic, human inclinations toward mechanistic solutions like AI have increasingly become normalized as part of our environment. Rather than framing ecology and AI as a binary opposition, this exhibition seeks to present a third perspective: foreignness—the things that overflow beyond human cognition.
Through poetic entities that inhabit social spaces while remaining foreign to human scales and timelines—such as faint memories of distant landscapes, unfamiliar bird calls, or seemingly purposeless debris—the exhibition aims to illuminate the complexities of contemporary society.
The exhibition considers the risks of terms like "ethical consumption" and "sustainability," frequently used in advertising today, which may confine ecological goodwill to superficial dimensions. It also reflects on how, during the COVID-19 pandemic, human inclinations toward mechanistic solutions like AI have increasingly become normalized as part of our environment. Rather than framing ecology and AI as a binary opposition, this exhibition seeks to present a third perspective: foreignness—the things that overflow beyond human cognition.
Through poetic entities that inhabit social spaces while remaining foreign to human scales and timelines—such as faint memories of distant landscapes, unfamiliar bird calls, or seemingly purposeless debris—the exhibition aims to illuminate the complexities of contemporary society.
