disaster

SMB09 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA (2016) diagnosed that futures, as imagined in the contemporary era, do not form a single coherent image, but instead unfold as diverse scenes and are related to disasters that traverse multiple layers across various locations. Disasters such as shipwrecks, terrorist attacks, wars, refugee crises, nuclear and radiation exposure, pandemics, economic disparity, and even “outer space” as a new colony and site of technological competition all constitute recurring and multifaceted scenarios that persist to this day, shaping the narratives and settings of contemporary art while conveying distinct temporal sensibilities. Borrowing from a poem written in “Martian language” by Japanese poet Shuntarō Tanikawa, the exhibition title NERIRI KIRURU HARARA serves as both a signal and an incantatory expression through which an earthling, confronting existential isolation in a nation devastated by atomic bombs following its defeat in World War II, seeks solidarity with imagined cosmic beings.