WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Series

Takashi Homma’s Conversations on Photography

Thinking about Windows through Photography

Alec Soth, who has taken many photos of “windows” in various parts of the world, and Takashi Homma, who has speculated on the relationships between windows and photos. The two state-of-the-art photographers in Japan and the U.S. discuss their unique theories of photography, under the theme of “windows”, from Robert Frank to Instagram.

06 JUL 2016

Articles

Gordon Matta-Clark and Apertures

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo is currently featuring the exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark: Mutation in Space. Matta-Clark graduated from Cornell University, where he had majored in architecture, and went on to become an artist, producing many experimental projects over a short lifetime. So what kind of a figure was this Gordon Matta-Clark? Focusing on the “apertures” in such works as Splitting—one of his definitive works which involved bisecting a house with a chainsaw—and Window Blow-Out, we asked chief researcher Kenjin Miwa, and Keigo Kobayashi, the designer of the exhibitionʼs venue who previously worked for OMA, to share their thoughts.

17 SEP 2018

Interviews

Rei Naito: Mirror Creation

Rei Naito is an artist who creates works that converse with the environments that surround them, posing the question “Isnʼt simply existing on the earth a blessing in itself?” In the case of Mirror Creation, her solo exhibition at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, her works are illuminated by natural light streaming in through the glass walls and skylights in a space designed by SANAA. The window and the other works displayed in this exhibition employ openings and reflections to create intersections between seeing and being seen. Here we discuss with the artist the role of windows in her work.

02 NOV 2020