On show from 24 July - 15 August 2025, we explore through making, philosophical accounts of violence as a purely human phenomenon, together with themes of imaginative becomings.
Featuring students from VCA & Tokyo University of the Arts: Lee Chie, Chika Inagaki, Hiroki Ishikawa, Lemonnier Jean, Hyejung Jo, Manabu Kanai, Juli Lee, Han Yun Liang, Nana Matsumoto, Nagisa Mizuno, Aily Natori, Nini, Ou Jingwei, Utako Shindo, Melanie Stiniguta, Urara Sumida, Naoko Tamaki, Kyohei Tashiro, Rieko Yamamoto, Motoki Watanabe, and Neil Malone & Grace Andrews, Billy Mutt (Bryce Bridger), Leila Edelstein, Bailey Florence, Arthur Foulkes, Leena Luu, Lia Mills, Elizabeth Presa, Rachel Rovira
Curated by Elizabeth Presa, Utako Shindo, and Rachel Rovira.
24 July - 15 August 2025
Opening Celebration Thursday 24 July, 5-7pm
The World to Come is a collaborative project by students from VCA and Tokyo University of the Arts. To make art we must become like children and believe in this world in all its colours, textures and sensations, sufferings and joys. Yet war, violence and destruction—including environmental devastation—may “make believing in this world our most difficult task.” As artists, let us discover ways to make the world anew, a world where even the tiniest gestures and most fragile of forms may find their place in the sunlight. This is the second iteration of The World to Come, following its first showing at Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo (Feb 2025).