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Behind the transparent layers, the motifs stand quietly.
They look like a civilization long vanished, yet they are familiar images from our daily lives: anime, cars, cityscapes, toys, and fragments of memories.

Yokosaka displayed them in the white cube like “excavated objects.”
Just as we are moved by ancient pottery, the traces of time spent by you or someone else have equal value.

Even nameless memories are part of a grand human history.

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“Drawing between the start and end cuts.”
Yokosaka, who worked in animation, overlaps life with this process.

The start and end points are determined.
However, how to move and spend time “in between” is left to the creator.
Civilization and life are limited.

That is why we have choices and freedom in the process: how to live, what to love, and what scenery to remember.

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The overlapping transparent layers connect the past, future, you, and the world.
“Each person’s life is as precious as a civilization.”
Please receive this quiet blessing.

Your life can be made of countless shared memories.

This exhibition is your exhibition.

▼Artist

Tatsuya Yokosaka
(https://www.instagram.com/yokosakatatsuya/)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tatsuya Yokosaka could not go to art supply stores, so he tried many things using what he had at home. He used canvases that he had failed to draw on and left alone, clear folders that used to hold documents, and things he could get with his hands. While he was trying to draw landscapes after the extinction of humanity, he used the technique of cel animation. Through this process, he reached his recent works, which are completed by putting cels on canvases.

There, the anime-like landscapes that he calls his own roots connected with the imagination born from the literal fear of the unknown during the pandemic—the extinction of humanity. This led to the works made after that.

While using the common language of anime, he locks humanity before the pandemic behind acrylic plates, and makes them into art pieces like items found at ancient ruins.

“I hope people think about empathy, and find something new and pleasant in the way their thoughts move.”

Just like these words of the artist, his works are made by mixing various cultural elements behind empathy. They give viewers a feeling of nostalgia and a somewhat humorous freshness.

▼Exhibition Information

【Date】2026/7/4(Sat) – 7/25(Sat)
【Open】12:00 – 19:00
【Close】Monday
【Location】TERRADA ART COMPLEX II 3F, 1-32-8 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002