Discover Soup as the Basis for Life
21_21 Design Sight Gallery will host an exhibition centered around soup and the origins of food, clothing and shelter.
“Soup As Life” will be directed by Natsumi Toyama, a designer who matches clothing and shelter as our bodies’ external environment, and food as its internal environment. A graduate from Musashino Art University with a degree in Scenography, Display and Fashion Design, Toyama has worked as a clothing designer for Issey Miyake and sets soup as the main axis of her independent creative work.
Food, clothing and shelter are the base needs that wrap our lives inside and out. This exhibition is an experiment in reconsidering these fundamental elements via issues of bodily sensation. It takes soup as the starting point. The salinity of amniotic fluid is 0.9%, which Toyama reports is the same as most people’s preferred salinity of soup. It also contains a high amount of glutamic acid, a key umami component. In this concept, everyone was surrounded by “soup” while still in the womb.
Soup also only requires minimal cooking. It is just ingredients stewed in water. Yet a bowl of soup contains layers of meaning, local history and experimentation to create it.
The exhibition features a wide range of artists, including Issey Miyake, Tokuro Oka, Noriaki Okamoto, Natsumi Kato, Masahito Sato, Kohei Shikama and more.
During the exhibition period, visitors who present their admission sticker at Kayanoya Tokyo Midtown and spend ¥1000 or more will receive one Kayanoya Original Stock Powder as a gift.
