高田洋三　ラロ・マイヤー　渡邊耕一　ダナ・フリッツ

Yozo Takada, Ralo Mayer, Koichi Watanabe, Dana Fritz

The atmosphere is perceived as a medium of the landscape produced by humans and plants. TAKADA Yozo's photograps capture the indoor landscape of an ecosystem research institute over a decade. Ralo Mayer's experimental video merges the institute's indoor scenery and archives into a glitched movie. WATANABE Koichi's photographs trace the vegetation of an enigmatic herb across the historical timeline from the 15th century to the present and the geographical space stretching from Europe to Asia. Dana Fritz's photographs depict Nebraska National Forest, once the world's largest hand-planted forest, as a hybrid landscape shaped by human and non-human forces. Contrasting the utopian aspirations of humanity with the pervasive force of plants, the exhibition explores an intertwined history of humans expanding their living spaces alongside vegetation and plants extending their presence through parasitic interactions with humans. A new atmospheric understanding of landscape is born from a history that connects humans and plants. Humanity and plants breathe together.