The exhibition at WATARI-UM, the Watari Museum serves as a small retrospective of works created over six decades. The selection, however, is enough to highlight the essential qualities of this art – the alignment of life and work, visual minimalism, the deliberate elimination of things, philosophical reflection – or simply attention turned inward – along with the pursuit of harmony: harmony with ourselves, with nature, and with our surroundings. The exhibition brings together a variety of Kamoji’s works, all of which are inextricably linked to the artist’s deeply internalized experience.

From the very beginning, architecture’s primary role has been to protect. The set of anxieties that accompany its inhabitants has evolved – people still turn to architecture to seek shelter from weather or the elements, but nowadays they also contend with climate catastrophe, wars or the prospect of mass migration. Does architecture have the tools to protect us from adversity? What practices taken from the construction and use of buildings can we employ to provide us with sense of security?