UCHIROJI #0

The TEA-ROOM

UCHIROJI #0, 2021

A uchiroji means a inner garden in English and refers to the garden of the tea room beyond sotoroji meaing a outer garden. Guests sweep away the dust of the secular world in the sotoroji and immerse themselves in an even more profound spiritual world in the uchiroji. In traditional tea rooms, deciduous trees and flowers are planted in the sotoroji to express the changing seasons of the mundane world, while evergreen trees with relatively little change are used in the uchiroji to express the spiritual world.
Believing that there are clues to capturing the essence of the tea ceremony in the ceremonial spaces that invite people into the spiritual world, this work is an experimental project by the art collective "The TEA-ROOM," which expresses the objects and spirituality that make up the world of tea ceremony using contemporary techniques, to explore the inner roji-like spaces in the present day.
In this exhibition, the artists' creative process is presented in a work-in-progress format in the actual uchiroji, attempting to observe the experiential changes of the viewers.
内露地は、外露地の先にある茶室の庭を指す。客人は、外露地で世俗の塵を払い、内露地でさらに深遠な精神世界へ没入していく。従来の茶室では、外露地では季節の移ろう現世を表現するために落葉樹や花などを植え、内露地では比較的変化の少ない常緑樹を使い精神世界を表現している。
精神世界へ誘う儀式的空間に、茶の湯の本質をとらえるヒントがあると考え、本作品は、茶の湯の世界を構成する事物や精神性を現代の手法で表現するアート集団「The TEA-ROOM」が、現代における内露地的空間を探求する実験的プロジェクトである。
今回の展示では、実際の内露地で、作家たちの制作過程を見せる(ワークインプログレス)形式を用い、鑑賞者の体験的変化の観察を試みた。
Gentaro Yokoyama
Gentaro Yokoyama
Mami
Mami
Ryota Hagiwara
Ryota Hagiwara

Credit

Artist: The TEA-ROOM (Ryuta Aoki, Gentaro Yokoyama, Mami, Ryota Hagiwara)

Past Exhibitions

July 24th – Aug. 9th, 2021: Exhibition: Jack into the Noösphere

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