Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children (Mori Art Museum)

(Translated by Google Translate)

A collection of works on the theme of children, exhibitions of Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, in Roppongi.

Has become the name of the exhibition, Go Betws and (mediator), due to the fact that American photographer that work has been exhibited at the first of the venue, Jacob · A · Riis, called them so the children.

In immigration destination, for adults that do not quite remember the words, in order to cause as soon as you remember, children that because become a mediator between society and adults.

Riis, have taken many, the sight of the children of the poor in the United States. Through the appearance of a child, he expressed the existence of poverty in in society.

Video work that our future, of Yuken Teruya.

It is projected views of the beautiful nature of Okinawa, such as Haitsukuba~tsu on the floor, the landscape-oriented screen.

Sometimes, the image that represents a helicopter or of the United States military, the presence of a base is, come mixed in the image of such nature.

You can take the children to live in Okinawa, in the image of memory, without discomfort, as natural, there is no such contrasting, or will continue to rest much literally?

Works of Kondo Sino had expressed in manga, the emotions felt when their young.

On the assumption that their own, became a 7-year-old, Wong Songwon, is expressed by some pictures that has been processed, the world of the imagination.

It is a sight that is impossible in reality, but in the eyes of the children, such a world might be has become a reality.

Takayuki Yamamoto asked children to express using the tools and personal belongings and paper, the figure of hell that they imagine, the person is said in front of the camera, that of the hell.

Heart-shaped see, there in front of most of the photo above, can not be seen with the very hell, but this is, that they love hell.

Think only thing people who like, it's so hell that people whose work is no longer adhere to the hand, fall.

Dream imagined that in the Gaza Strip of Palestine, in a dire situation, he became a star, "Come on, to the moon" of Suheru-Naffaru & Jacqueline Reem Sarromu video work called.

News in air strikes to the Gaza Strip by Israel, many citizens that have died is flowing every day.

Really, which is in reality, which is probably a world in works of art?

In the last corner, a picture book that is related to it or, the writer was showing the works, was supposed to be able to view.

I visited with a light heart in the fact that planning for Parents and Children, of summer vacation, but heavily, I've brought back the heavy theme. Whew.