- 2025
- Tokyo
- Mita
The scenography design for Atochi, an architectural exhibition organized by the Architectural Institute of Japan.
Because most of the works were installations, we did not take part in placing the works or designing any display furniture. We only built one thing: a gate-shaped temporary wall in a corner of the gallery, creating a small room where visitors could browse documents, papers, and reference materials related to “atochi” (former sites).
A pale bluish-gray carpet, glaring fluorescent lights, a steel cabinet full of scratches and marks, a multifunction printer, a heavy leather chair. We placed these elements of a reference room one by one, carefully and quietly, and finally attached a slender mirror to the edge of the gate-shaped wall.
The fake reference room that emerged behaved as if it had always been there, camouflaging itself into the everyday. It carried the faint presence and afterglow of memories belonging to no one in particular. A room that feels familiar yet unknown—like overlapping timelines that have slipped out of sync, or like the world after the universe resets in Part 6 of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.
After the installation was completed, I had the chance to look at archival materials from the building’s original construction. According to the drawings, this corner—before it became a gallery—was, coincidentally, labeled a “document distribution corner.” I thought I was fabricating a reading room, but perhaps I was unintentionally reconstructing the document distribution corner that once existed there.
Somewhere along the way, the fake timeline and the real one became tangled, and the story grew complicated.
Organized by : Architectural Institute of Japan
Dates : October 2–19, 2025
Venue : Architecture Museum Gallery and Courtyard
Artists : Yusuke Oono, Yu Shinoda, Takahiro Yamazaki, Taichi Moriyama, Hinako Izuhara, Fumika Morito+Shingei Katsu, Takuya Tsunashima
Curator : Shin Kawakatsu, Dai Katsuragawa
Scenography : DOMINO ARCHITECTS
Graphics : Takuya Tsunashima
Construction : Yuta Kunishige, Yumi Higuchi
Videography : Masashi Okamoto
Photography : Yu Shinoda
Special Sponsorship: Center for Architecture and Knowledge (CoAK)
Documentation for exhibition “Atochi”
Videography : Masashi Okamoto
Sounds : Shota Hirama
