Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × MOHRI Yuko–On Physis

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The Artizon Museum has held its annual Jam Session exhibition, a collaboration combining works from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection with works by a contemporary artist, since the museum opened in 2020. For the fifth Jam Session, we have invited Mohri Yuko, an artist who is attracting attention in the international art scene, to take part.
Mohri’s installations and sculptures use magnetism, electricity, air and dust, water and temperature to make visitors sensitive to forms latent in the currents and fluctuations of the spaces in which she exhibits. The title of this exhibition is On Physis. The word “Physis” is an ancient Greek term translated as “Nature” or “Essence.” It was used in what is known as Early Greek Philosophy in addressing the question of what the basic principle behind everything might be, a fundamental philosophical question today as well.
In this sense, “Physis” was the central concern of Early Greek Philosophy. The surviving fragments of that ancient philosophy were later collected under the title “On Nature” and used to represent philosophical interest in movement, ongoing motion: the birth, transformation, and disappearance of entities. Mohri’s work overlaps with their interest in ever-present fluid change.
For this, Mohri’s first large-scale exhibition in Japan, we have brought together both new and old works, and arranged them beside works from the Ishibashi Foundation collection, creating tranquil organic spaces filled with subtle sounds and movements that can be experienced nowhere else.

*Online tickets must be purchased up to 10 minutes before the end of each time slot.
*Booking is not accepted when a time slot is full.
*In-Person ticket may be purchased at the museum, if the time slot is not full.
*This admission fee gives the visitor access to the concurrent exhibitions.

Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × MOHRI Yuko—On Physis
The artist Mohri Yuko has recently been gaining international attention and praise. In part, due to her solo show “Compose” at the Japan Pavilion in this year’s International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, as well as the invitation for a solo exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, in September 2025. This talk series provides the opportunity to explore Mohri’s practice past, present, and future. The first session is with Lee Sook-Kyung, who is a curator of “Compose,” and the following session will be with Vicente Todolí, the artistic director of Pirelli HangarBicocca. Meanwhile, the Jam Session with Mohri will be a chance to learn about her work from the point of curators who have made or will make exhibitions with the artist. Please join us.