Haunting Objects is a four-day exhibition in Tokyo that explores our complex and often overlooked relationship with material things in an age of over-production and accelerated consumption.
We build our world and sense of reality through objects. In our daily routines and mundane tasks, we interact with them constantly, forming emotional attachments, curiosity, indifference, or something else entirely. Over time, objects become so embedded in our movements and surroundings that they fade into the background, quietly holding history, memory, and a sense of belonging. Haunting us, just staring back.
In a time saturated with objects, production and consumption are pushed to move faster and faster. The time to form emotional connections or assign value to things feels increasingly limited. Especially in a city like Tokyo, where abundance is part of the urban identity, we, as a collective, began to wonder, how do individuals cope with a kind of loss; the loss of attachment, of relationship with objects?
By closely exploring the tension between traditional craft and mass-produced goods, we reflected on what it means to use, to possess, or to discard from their own cultural and personal contexts.
This is a joint project with Zenzai Collective
The exhibition was made possible with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
The exhibition was made possible with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands