Spectrum 2076 AD ── Conscious Entities of the Coming World
Gyre Gallery
Starts 5/22
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Mariko Mori, Ken Ikeda, Shinya Yamada, Kohei Nawa, Ai Makita, Emi Kusano, Arisa Kumagai
GYRE GALLERY is pleased to present SPECTRUM 2076 AD — Conscious Entities of the Coming World, an exhibition curated by Takayo Iida (Director of the Sgùrr Dearg Institute for Sociology of the Arts), which opens on May 22, 2026. This exhibition is an ideological laboratory for carrying out a retrospective inquiry into the present from the perspective of the year 2076, a time fifty years in the future when the world has gone through climate change and the technological singularity. The exhibition features seven artists: Ken Ikeda, Mariko Mori, Shinya Yamada, Kohei Nawa, Ai Makita, Emi Kusano, and Arisa Kumagai. It goes beyond a spectrum as the physical distribution of visible light, also exploring the ambiguity of the specters found in Jacques Derrida's concept of hauntology. A soundscape by Ken Ikeda fills the space with a Bergsonian duration, stripping away the contours of our consciousness. With her upright crystal, Mariko Mori presents an “open ascent” to cosmic oneness. In the layers of his paintings where the visible and the invisible intersect, Shinya Yamada captures the presence of specters that continue to haunt us even today. Kohei Nawa transforms matter into wave motion, deconstructing actual membrane into spectrum. Erasing the boundary between reality and fiction, Ai Makita depicts the topology of post-humans as biological systems that have internalized mechanical order, while Emi Kusano generates images of a past that never existed from the latent space that is AI. By illuminating the memories of a submerged civilization, Arisa Kumagai offers a metaphysical requiem to the fleeting moment of the present.
Schedule | May 22 (Fri) 2026-Jul 12 (Sun) 2026 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||
| Website | https://en.gyre-omotesando.com/artandgallery/spectrum/ | ||
| Venue | Gyre Gallery https://en.gyre-omotesando.com/art/ | ||
| Location | 3F Gyre, 5-10-1 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001 | ||
| Access | 4 minute walk from exit 5 at Meiji-jingumae Station on the Chiyoda and Fukutoshin lines. 5 minute walk from exit A1 at Omotesando Station on the Hanzomon, Chiyoda and Ginza lines, 6 minute walk from the Omotesando exit of JR Harajuku Station. | ||
| Phone | 03-3498-6990 |
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