Lose Yourself in Taiki Yokote’s Liminal Dreamscape at Tokyo’s CON_ and parcel
Floating rock piles, plush puppies, and animal bites, the Japanese artist opens a ‘lovely’ and ‘lonely’ two-venue spectacle.
Summary
- Japanese artist Taiki Yokote is currently presenting a two-venue solo exhibition (to make today lovely, too and to make today lonely, too) at CON_ and parcel in Tokyo
- The show runs until July 26 and features an array of installations, sculptures, videos, and photography, enchanting the overlooked moments of the everyday
Only a single letter can change a world of meaning. Lovely and lonely, case in point. Such a slight yet seismic difference is the focal point of a new two-venue solo exhibition by Taiki Yokote. Now on view at CON_ and parcel in Tokyo, the Japanese artist gathers a cross-medium collection, including gentle nature photographs, rows of plush puppies and his renowned levitating rock sculptures.
Like their titles, to make today lovely, too at parcel and to make today lonely, too at CON_, the showcases envelope their respective galleries, bringing two distinct flavors to the near-identical spaces. Yet, through the floors, it is Yokote’s love for the liminal space between delusion, fantasy, and reality that threads it all.
His fascination with the unseen moments, or stories yet to be told, is captured cleanly through materiality and subject. Totems of blue tarp billow and wind, as if performing a slow dance. Broken pieces of concrete and rock hover almost impossibly in mid-air. Elsewhere, large-scale prints of animal scratches and dust thrown up from the ground bear scars of moments too fleeting for us to take note.
“Tenderness and loneliness, relief and anxiety are not separate emotions but two sides of the same day,” CON_ penned in a statement about the show. “The ambiguity of something inverting with a single change in perspective [...] it quietly reaches outward, toward the question of how we look at the world, what we call things, and what we choose to connect with.”
Courtesy Of Con_
to make today lovely, too and to make today lonely, too are now on view at parcel (2F) and CON_ (4F) through July 26.
CON_ & parcel
Maruka bldg,
2-2-14 Nihonbashi- Bakurocho,
Chuo-ku, Tokyo
