Period: August 29 – October 19, 2025
Venue: Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
Curated by Daichi Nakagawa, Takakurakazuki, and Yasutaka Toyokawa
Exhibited work:
Kenji Yanobe + BAN8KU + YANOKEN PROJECT
The Spaceship of SHIP’S CAT
2025, mixed media, 100 × 110 × 80 cm
Central to the show is artist Kenji Yanobe, known for integrating post-war tokusatsu aesthetics and nuclear themes. Yanobe reinterprets Taro Okamoto’s Tower of the Sun as the creation myth of his SHIP’S CAT series. In his creation myth, the tower, built at the 1970 Osaka World Expo, were vestiges of humanity now functions as the SHIP’S CAT’s space shuttle that carries the beginnings of life on earth.
In 2025, Yanobe collaborated with pixel artist BAN8KU and game designers from Kyoto University of the Arts, Osaka Electro-Communication University and Soai University via the YANOKEN PROJECT to debut a sculptural artwork that bridges physical form and virtual experience through interactive gameplay. A behind-the-scenes video on the development of the artwork and its game world will be shown at the exhibition.
