This exhibition was held as the contemporary art exhibition series of Itabashi Art Museum in Tokyo.
MARUYAMA Yoshiko and MARUYAMA Tokio, artists’ couple were the commissioners and lead artists, they settled the theme, participants and composition of the exhibition and organized with the vice-director MATSUOKA Kiyoko.

theme/
When a large tree that collapses in a mature forest, it makes a large hole that opens at the top of the forest. It is called a gap, and the sunlight inserts into the bottom of the forest causes germination, the plant group dynamically changes, and eventually the forest reaches an equilibrium state again. The process of returning is called gap dynamics.
If you compare the pre-2011 society to a forest, 3.11 made awful thud and opened a huge gap. How do artists work in the gap that can be called a wound or a hole created in society and open up the beginning of new germination?

date/ 26 Nov, 2013 ~ 5 Jan. 2014
place/ Itabashi Art Museum
artist/ OHYA Rica, KANAZAWA Sumi, TOUDA Shinichi, NAKATSUGAWA Hiroaki, MARUYAMA Tokio, MARUYAMA Yoshiko