"Ambiguous Relationships," an exhibition exploring the relationship between artwork and the body, will be held at Ginza Hermès Forum from December 21 to February 26, 2017, through works by three artists of different generations, nationalities, and artistic styles. Swiss jewelry artist Bernhard Schobinger faithfully depicts the materiality of the body, its strengths and weaknesses, and desires, through his creations of jewelry intended to be worn. This exhibition explores the ambiguous reversal of the master-servant relationship between body and ornament, in which ornaments, once associated with love and power and an object of desire, only realize their true value in their absence. French painter Anne Lhote-Sacrist superimposes the poetic, geometric abstraction found in Paolo Uccello's 15th-century painting "The Battle of Saint-Roman," onto a rock garden in Kyoto, highlighting the ever-changing relative relationships between indoors and outdoors, and between parts and the whole.

Berlin-based artist Niall Koetting attempts to replace phenomena such as signals and scents with new forms of material perception and communication, based on invisible materials such as light waves and sound waves. Citing the Italian philosopher Mario Perniola's "Enigma," Koetting resonates with punk culture's "lack of future" and "not feeling anything" as an attitude that permeates humans as they become "materialized."

Through the expressions of these three artists, who uniquely generate confrontations between their artworks and the body, this exhibition is structured to allow viewers to sense the ambiguous complicity between objects, the body, and space.

【Event Information】
"Ambiguous Relationship" Exhibition
Venue: Ginza Maison Hermès Forum
Address: 8th floor, 5-4-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Dates: December 21st - February 26th, 2017
Time: 11:00 - 20:00 (until 19:00 on Sundays, last admission 30 minutes before closing)
Free admission