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Name: teamLab: Existence in Perception - Engyoji Temple
Start: 2023-04-29
End: 2023-12-03
Location: Shoshazan Engyoji Temple

AFGELOPEN TENTOONSTELLING

2023.04.29(Sat) - 12.03(Sun)Shoshazan Engyoji Temple, Himeji, Hyogo

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Related Exhibition at Himeji City Museum of Art on view from Jul 22 - Jan 21, 2024
"teamLab: Existence in an Infinite Continuity"

AFGELOPEN TENTOONSTELLING

2023.04.29(Sat) - 12.03(Sun)Shoshazan Engyoji Temple, Himeji, Hyogo

#teamLabEngyoji

Related Exhibition at Himeji City Museum of Art on view from Jul 22 - Jan 21, 2024
"teamLab: Existence in an Infinite Continuity"

teamLab: Existence in Perception - Engyoji Temple

Exploring the notion of a world without boundaries in every dimension, teamLab’s creations in recent years have been themed around vast questions such as the meaning of life and existence.

For example, there is an artwork that has been gaining attention in which a sphere of light appears to float in a space that is in reality physically empty. It is an artwork that incites viewers to realize that the world we see with our eyes does not necessarily exist, and that what we see exists only in the viewer.

The Jiki-do, the exhibition venue, is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property and one of the three temple buildings (collectively called Mitsunodo) of the prestigious Shoshazan Engyoji Temple, which has over 1,000 years of history since the Heian period (794 and 1185). The current building is from the Muromachi period (1336 to 1573), and was a multi-purpose space for monks used for learning, lodging, and dining. The two-storey structure is one of Japan’s largest-scale Important Cultural Properties designated by the country, and in this exhibition, teamLab transforms its first floor, a 38m-long hall, into a new artwork space.
The artworks of this exhibition will lead viewers to perceive forms of light and radiance that do not physically exist, produced by phenomena born from the effects of the environment and our perception, showcasing the innovativeness of teamLab’s work.

When we enter teamLab’s artwork space, we come face to face with our own existence that is continuous with the space. The world does not exist separately, independent from us - rather it is continuous with us, together with us, and within us. The spheres of light created by teamLab inside Engyoji Temple, a venue regarded as a sacred location for the arts, invites viewers to reconsider the universal question of life and existence.

ー Himeji City Museum of Art

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Massless Sun, Distorted Space

A sphere of light.The sphere of light can be clearly perceived in the space as a mass seemingly made of solidified light, however, there is no material surface boundary. The perception of the boundary between the artwork and your body is ambiguous.

Light does not solidify, and masses made entirely of light do not exist in the universe. In other words, this sphere of light only exists in your perception.The artwork cannot exist on its own - its existence is a phenomenon created by its environment. The work questions the notion of existence and what it means.

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Giant Solidified Spark

Reality is not what we see. What we see is a world that we are capable of perceiving.

A sphere made of accumulated rays of light.
The light radiates from the center in infinite fine rays, creating its spherical shape. The light source remains motionless, yet the countless lines emitting from it wriggle continuously.

The sphere has no surface boundary, and the perception of the boundary between the artwork and the body is ambiguous. When you try to touch the sphere, it reacts, but since it does not have a physical boundary, your hand goes into the sphere.

What is this sphere? Why do the rays wriggle?
Our world is within us.

And once we recognize this sphere made of accumulated lines, our perception of the world expands, and we will begin to notice it wherever we go.

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Venue Details

teamLab: Existence in Perception - Engyoji Temple

Looptijd

2023.04.29(Sat) - 12.03(Sun)

Openingstijden

10:00 - 15:45 (Last Entry 15:30)

Website

Shoshazan Engyoji Temple
Himeji City Museum of Art

Route

Adres

Jiki-do, Shoshazan Engyoji Temple
2968 Shosha, Himeji City, Hyogo

Map

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By Ropeway

■Getting to Sanroku Station (Ropeway)
Take the Shinki Bus headed for Shoshazan Ropeway (last stop) departing from Bus
Terminal 10 at JR/Sanyo Electric Railway Himeji Station (30-min ride)

■From Sanroku Station (Ropeway)
Get off at Sanjo Station (4-min ride). Transfer to the minibus departing from
the Shinosho (reception), and get off at Maniden-shita (5-min ride)
*The ropeway departs every 15 minutes from 8:30
*The minibus ride (return-trip) is included in the 500 JPY temple entrance fee
*You can also walk to the Maniden from the Shinosho (20-min walk)

■From Maniden-shita
10-min walk to Jiki-do

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ARTIEST

teamLab

teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective. Their collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception.

In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perceptions of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity.

teamLab’s works are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;  Amos Rex, Helsinki; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; and Asia Society Museum, New York, among others.

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Biographical Documents

teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery, Martin Browne Contemporary and Ikkan Art.