SIDE CORE: Concrete Planet | Watarium Art Museum
Exhibitions
SIDE CORE is an art group that develops art projects that use public spaces and streets as backgrounds. His activities have been gaining attention in recent years, and this exhibition will be his first large-scale solo exhibition in Tokyo.
For example, we use special methods to shoot highways, railways, underground waterways, etc., create installation works using street lights, guardrails, road construction signs, etc. that are visible in public places, and make mouse puppets that simply walk around Tokyo. SIDE CORE creates works such as documentaries by focusing on the unique public nature and institutions of the city and intervening and negotiating with them. His expression methods are constantly expanding and updating, and he is an artist who is currently developing and cannot be missed.
In addition, this exhibition will not only take place inside the museum, but will also extend to the surrounding environment, allowing visitors to see how the imagination of the city can be expanded through art.
In this exhibition, we will present a group of works divided into three themes based on our keywords of perspective, behavior, and storytelling. The perspective section presents a series of new three-dimensional works that simulate urban cycles using mainly street materials. The action section records the actions/expressions that intervene in urban situations and cycles with videos and photos. In the storytelling section we will present the latest version of the "Underground City" project, which has been ongoing since 2023 and explores Tokyo's underground spaces through skateboarding. Exploring the dark side of the city, accumulating small actions that feed noise back into the urban landscape. This series of actions involves the vision of a small part of Tokyo's urban system, but at the same time, they also touch off a chain reaction of cultural activism that transcends borders and time, and connects with people I think are unexpected. This is how to create it.