“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
The Yokohama Triennale, first held back in 2001 and occurs once in every three years, is Japan’s one of the biggest art exhibitions.
This year’s edition titled ‘Afterglow’ marks the first time the exhibition has been led by an artistic director from overseas. Raqs Media Collective, a collective of three artists based in New Delhi, India, directed this year’s edition.
The following is a brief description of the concept of this year’s edition by the official page of the art event:
The title of Yokohama Triennale 2020 is “AFTERGLOW,” a word chosen by Raqs Media Collective to reference how, in our everyday lives, we unknowingly experience the residues of light sparked at the beginning of our time, as in the case of how the “white noise” on our analog televisions included fragments of cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the cosmic Big Bang.
Did you understand what it means? I certainly didn’t! Even though I went to the exhibition and photographed some of its works, I had no idea what kind of messages they want to give us. Well, it’s art! So, I don’t have to understand it all anyways.
Here are some shots I photographed in the art event on October 4th in Yokohama.
Via: Yokohama Triennale