cosmohapticsー宇宙の手触り, 2025
Exhibition at The 5th Floor, curated by のぼる [noboru]
In conversation with Karen Barad, Nalyssa Green
Supported by Eyes of Light, Immigration Museum Tokyo, Nakacho House, Queer Cinema Club, Studio GROSS, voyons voir
[press release]

Living in contemporary society, we are often detached from a sense of control over the saturated stimulus of the world surrounding us. A sensation accelerated by current social/media outlets, climate change, and advanced consumerism, it is very easy to feel as a stranger in our own daily lives. One way to navigate this unfamiliarity is through the possibilities offered by contemporary art practices, which create (new) symbolic languages that can express or communicate our experiences. Art that attunes itself to the rhythms of nature—plants, water formations, and the cosmos—can serve as a passageway, helping us feel more connected to the macro and micro systems that shape our world.

cosmohaptics refer to the intimate relationships with the world’s ongoing transformations, intertwining the materialization of planets with our personal narratives. Merging the speculative and boundless wonder evoked by observing celestial bodies with the sensual intimacy of touch as a means of knowledge production, this exhibition offers a new material approach to embodied experience as planetary beings. Ultimately, cosmohaptics are an exploration of the fractured planets we inhabit, and the ones that, in turn, inhabit us.