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.