2004
東京都千代田区神田神保町2−29−5小林ビル１F 2004.06
Kobayashi Building 1F, 2-29-5 Kanda Jinbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 2004.06
Kanda Jimbocho Kobayashi Building (Tokyo)
2004
東京都千代田区神田神保町2−29−5小林ビル１F 2004.06
Kobayashi Building 1F, 2-29-5 Kanda Jinbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 2004.06
Kanda Jimbocho Kobayashi Building (Tokyo)
In the 2004 group exhibition "Old Hosobuchi Building Exhibition - An Exhibition by 9 Artists," Yoshitaka Nanjo presented an installation using the former Western-style restaurant space on the first floor of the Kobayashi Building in Kanda Jimbocho, Chiyoda Ward, which had been closed for many years. In the room, which retained a damp atmosphere and a sense of oppression, Nanjo extracted soil through a tiny hole in the concrete floor and quietly piled it up on top of the dust. This act, in which the boundaries between nature and artificiality, intention and chance, are ambiguously intertwined, is an attempt to evoke the time that has settled in the place. Viewers are not asked to understand or interpret, but are strongly made aware of simply "being there." It is a work that presents the tense moment when a place acquires meaning again through its interaction with people.
