Metamorphosis Garden
Metamorphosis Garden is an installation with the theme of life, matter, and a world in which ambiguous entities coexist on the boundary between the two. Expressing the emergence of a new narrative out of chaos, it is a development from the Biota (Fauna/Flora) installation (2013)on Inujima island in the Seto Inland Sea. Ether and Trans-Deer emerge as symbols of life from irregularly shaped islands and droplets in a group of sculptures covered with alumina and microbeads floating in the atrium space. An augmented reality performance created in collaboration with choreographer Damien Jalet creates a constantly changing world in which real objects and images of augmented reality overlap.

Autumn ROOT
The theme is the rhizosphere, the soil zone surrounding a plant’s roots, a world of roots and root vegetables growing with pronounced vigor, spreading beneath the surface.For this animation, we commissioned works from Makiko Tanaka, an artist living in France. She explores expressing motifs such as food that exists all around us as fictitious landscapes or events. The two new works presented here, “Théâtre de la terre” and “Sleeping Beauty,” display her characteristic floating, pop art style in fantastical depictions of the rhizosphere. The threads around the branches are dyed with turmeric and beets and presented to recall roots and root hairs.