Works

We have all experienced how changing our “viewpoint” can transform the way we see, feel, and think about new things. By changing viewpoints and then switching to focus purely on a specific viewpoint, this work challenges the viewer to make new discoveries and embrace new thoughts, while conscious of the scenery being reconfigured around them.

This work makes use of the refractive properties of curved acrylic to deform images and make them imperfect. We unconsciously assimilate large volumes of images that flood our daily lives as information. By supplementing this sometimes incomplete information ourselves and reconstructing it in our imaginations, there are tantalizing instances when we attain infinite clarity.

In this installation piece, viewers rotate a device to play a video. This work carefully reexamines and deeply probes the ubiquitous and instinctual action of rotating things, offering new insights into these everyday interactions. Not only does this video feels good, but an accurate feedback you get from the device provide comfortable and intuitive interaction.

Festivals have always been a source of emotional support and life-giving strength for people. This work is a video installation based on the theme of the Tohoku region’s celebrations and festivals. The challenge here is to reconstruct the traditional customs of “Hare no Hi,” which are days that the people of Tohoku have considered to be special since ancient times, and imbue them with new perspectives and interpretations.

As part of the venue staging, this work was designed as a passage that evokes the constantly changing modalities of clouds and shadows shifting in the wind. The time-space that visitors to the venue experience is divided into four sectors, and by manipulating the way light behaves in each of these, the static space transforms, being invigorated and enriched.

Limited edition sneakers created in a collaboration between fashion brand Maison MIHARA YASUHIRO and WOW. To celebrate this collaboration, an AR work featuring an original illustrated character created by Maison MIHARA YASUHIRO will be released on the WOW AR app. ** 100 pairs of sneakers will be available for sale exclusively at the venue during the exhibition period.

Project to unlearn the associations between taste and images. Drink the WOW original beer made specially for this project, and describe what you taste using an app to rediscover your sense of taste. *Pre-order sales start from October 14 on Discover Japan's official online store. *Launch planned for November 18 on Discover Japan's official online store.

"sonus-oleum" is a live installation work that allows you to experience pieces in different forms on each of three floors (B1, first floor, and roof) of a facility modeled after a boat (T-LOTUS M). We imagined "music becoming an energy that moves the boat," and expressed through live performances, interactive experiences and projection mapping. In this live installation, we were able to unlearn through a series of processes and bring forth a scenery of reincarnating into new sound and cycling on. The title of the work, "sonus-oleum" is a word coined from "sonus" (sound) and "petroleum."