Hiroaki MORITA : From Something to Something else

As the first project of the New Year, we are holding the third exhibition of Hiroaki Morita (b. 1973, lives and works in Tokyo) to introduce his new artwork.

This exhibition will focus on the installation artwork that was exhibited at LISTE - Art Fair Basel last year, “From Something to Something else,” which presents the circulation process of branded mineral waters from various areas around the world, by setting these waters to drip from the mouths of the bottles over time to transfer them into the other brands’ bottles. Besides, 3D artwork made of neon tubes and mirrors is exhibited, and bar service will be available so that you can actually drink mineral waters used for the artwork.

As is known to everyone, “water” is a fundamental substance for life, as indispensable as air. In the world of nature, water keeps changing its name depending on situation, becoming “mist, rain, cloud, lake, sea, river, and ice,” and continues to display its massive circulation on a global level.

A bottled mineral water, one of those states, is both a local and very global entity. For example, a well-known water brand, “Fiji Water,” is owned and sold by an American company in spite of its water source area. The moment mineral water becomes “water dripping” from the mouth of a bottle is a miraculous moment when it regains its primal anonymity, being free from any labeling.

This artwork tries to extend the brief moment as much as possible and provide viewers with various issues through water by overlapping the movement of “water circulation in various forms” with a process of “water circulation within capitalist society.