The exhibition highlights the shared qualities found in the two artists’ diverse practices across various mediums. By offering a comparative approach that illuminates the pre-established entities and inherent properties that engage in action, it explores the dynamic interplay between energy, motion, and climate in alignment with the surrounding environment, where all designated works exist in a constant state of exchange and diffraction, influencing one another inextricably. Both artists have framed their exhibitions as total theatres. They invite viewers to navigate the continuum of spatialities, thereby uncovering the intimate and often invisible threads that bind us to one another and the world around.

Tsuyoshi Hisakado directly takes the exhibition itself as medium that can iterate itself and tends to delineate its liminality. Through the epistolary-style title “Dear Future Person,” he constructs a script-based immersive field featuring a meticulous choreography of sound, light, and wall structures, along with the inaugural video work from his career, which becomes a sensory apparatus of endless loops. As theorist of postmodernism Donna Haraway observes, we inhabit and participate in the collapse and implosion of oppositional categories – subject and object, culture and nature, organism and machine, biologics and informatics. The artist simulates the incorporation of science and philosophy within the reality of technological proliferation, as well as the decomposition of humans as a finite species and their subjectivity. He has recently gained deeper insights from the concept of technological mediation, as well as from the traditional Japanese theatrical and architectural thought. In order to reimagine the connotations and extensions of humanity, he examines our relations to nature and the latest forms of human civilisations such as artificial intelligence. In this exhibition, through multiple metaphors, he deconstructs and reassembles his explorations into a doomed being, a ghostly being, and a symbiotic being, which ruptures the linear progression between posthuman and prehuman temporalities.