SHOJI KATO | STAGING AREA – Not Just for Thousands of Cranes

This exhibition will feature an installation work, Staging Area – Not Just for Thousands of Cranes (2022– 2023). This work consists of sculptural arrangements of place-specific materials, photographic images and a fragmented script for a fictional play (based on historical events). Together in the gallery space, they sustain a place into which imagine Söderfjärden as a moving place – a poetic staging area to which organic and inorganic, humans and animals, supporters and opponents, scantiness and sacredness, chance and the will to survive all come from different directions and times, and wherein they prepare for the continuation of their journeys. Will they somehow return to this juncture?