暗闇をくぐってみたら Part1 竹内公太展「のののののまつり」@ 市原湖畔美術館
The Ichihara Lakeside Museum, currently under renovation since late 2025, will partially reopen on May 1, 2026, with a theater-style series of solo exhibitions titled "Kōta Takeuchi: Nononononomatsuri" as its first installment. Artist Kōta Takeuchi, born in 1982 in Hyogo Prefecture and based in Fukushima, presents new video installations created during a four-month residency in Ichihara, where he visited over 70 stone monuments across the city—including horse-headed Kannon statues, Koyasu statues, and war memorials—to explore themes of parallel bodies and possession. The exhibition features works such as "Disassembly of the Sansha-za" (2013–2023), "Cement Thief" (2024), and "Sigh of the Ground" (2022), with a map showing the locations of the documented stone monuments.
This exhibition matters because it transforms the museum's reopening into a platform for site-specific, socially engaged art that connects local history, collective memory, and spiritual practices. By focusing on overlooked stone monuments and their layered narratives of life, prayer, and war, Takeuchi's work invites viewers to reconsider everyday landscapes as repositories of hidden stories. The series also signals the museum's renewed commitment to experimental, residency-based programming, with a second solo show by Yuriko Sasaoka already planned.