Barrack (Kondo Kanako, Furuhata Taiki) + Ano Daici

Program

EXHIBITION [Atsuta/Miya-no-Watashi Area]

Art Space & Cafe Bar Barrack

Venues:: Niwa Historic Residence (formerly Isekyu, an inn)
Year:: 2021
Install:: Tani Kaoru,
Studio Meigetsu

Café-Bar Hours:
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from March 12th to 28th 12:00-20:00 (Last order 19:30)

A collaboration between Seto-based Barrack (Kondo Kanako and Furuhata Taiki) and photographer Ano Daici, this exhibit focuses on the relationship between the Seto Electric Railway, which played a major role during the Meiji era in transporting pottery/ceramics, and the Horikawa River, where the terminal station for marine transport was located. Located at the mouth of the Horikawa River canal, on which these ceramic products were carried, and using a building that was once used as an inn at the post station Miya-shuku on the old Tokaido Road, this exhibit and café-bar welcomed Seto resident photographer Ano Daici and features works interpreting part of the history of Seto, the Horikawa River, and Miya-shuku.

Artist Statement

This exhibit focuses on the relationship between the Seto Electric Railway, which played a major role during the Meiji era in transporting pottery and ceramics, and the Horikawa River, where the terminal station for marine transport was located. Situated at the mouth of the Horikawa River canal, on which these ceramic products were carried, and using a building that was once used as an inn at the Miya-shuku post station on the old Tokaido Road, this exhibit and café-bar welcomed Seto resident photographer Ano Daici and features works interpreting part of the history of Seto, the Horikawa River, and Miya-shuku.

Artist

Barrack (Kondo Kanako, Furuhata Taiki)

Food + Art

Gallery/cafe space/unit operated by Kondo Kanako and Furuhata Taiki. They renovated a former electric appliance shop in Seto City, Aichi Prefecture, and now use it as an experimental space to connect art, people, and the city. The shop is open four days a week, with exhibitions held monthly, and the pair is involved in various art events and projects that are based there.

Ano Daici

Photograph

Photographer concentrates mainly on architectural photography. His work entitled “Seto 2015”, in which he deciphers the history and journey connoted in scenes of Seto that he had taken, was shown at the “Seto Contemporary Art Exhibition 2019”.