When the stores open.
Alongside the permanent exhibition, Jirinpa, the Archives mounts special exhibitions at regular intervals. Each exhibition is at once a presentation and a record of accession.
The exhibitions of the Archives are not substitutes for built space. They realize, in digital space and in the most natural of forms, structures, speeds, viewpoints, and ways of touching that a physical room could hardly sustain.
Special exhibitions with set dates are, once closed, accessioned as records — to be re-exhibited, re-accessioned, and rediscovered as the need arises.
Permanent Exhibition
The permanent exhibition.
No. 001 ／ Permanent exhibition · The first exhibition
JIRINPA
Hiragana, Rinpa, onomatopoeia. In a jet-black three-dimensional space, Rinpa folding screens travel around the inner wall of a cylinder, while forty-eight hiragana keep circling the other way. Touch a single character and it becomes the protagonist; onomatopoeia then emerge from within the screens.
The first exhibition of the Shibuya Higashi Archives, and its permanent one. An exhibition for entering the shapes of Japanese and touching the presence of its sounds — open for viewing at any time.
Special Exhibitions
Special exhibitions.
Special exhibitions are the testing ground where new viewpoints are brought into the stores. Working from released images, they cross periods, regions, materials, words, movements, and ways of remembering, in search of new forms of display.
Dates and details will be announced in the news on this site and in the official exhibitions app.
Coming soon
Now in preparation
We ask for a little patience until the next special exhibition opens. Inside the stores, preparations are quietly under way.