Exploring Urban Life’s Relationship With Nature
Most city residents live largely disconnected from the natural ecosystems that sustain them, even as plant life constantly adapts to human environments. “Seeds and Roots” examines how urban dwellers can rebuild a relationship with nature by paying closer attention to how natural materials and human infrastructure overlap. Bringing together 10 artists across contemporary art, architecture and fashion, this group exhibition stages the artworks in an interconnected space inspired by a community garden, revolving around the themes of eating, dressing, housing and waste.
The participating artists focus on tactile, everyday materials. Fashion designer Yoshikazu Yamagata uses soil-degradable fibers and repurposed garments, while architect Rui Itasaka builds structures from environmental fragments picked up on site. Painters Yuriko Asano and Mika Kato draw on local foraging and quiet domestic encounters with plants, set alongside Akane Saijo’s hollow ceramics, Hatsune Suzuki’s hand-processed natural pigments and Takeshi Yasura’s field-work-based installations.
