By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

I first wrote down all the phenomena that have emerged in contemporary society that I thought were related to this theme ["sea of oblivion"], and then sorted them out by grouping them into islands of ideas.

Of course, the process of curating is different from art making. Exhibition-making is a process that involves collaboration with various participating artists.

The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling "contemporary artists".

Art is basically entertainment.

Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to one who does a self-portrait...self-portraits deny not only photography itself but the 20th century as an era as well...an inevitable phenomenon at the end of the 20th century.