Art

layers – matsudo edition –


light, threads, and memory

Concept

Year 2026

Light touches a single thread. Fragments of a landscape appear between the overlapping lines.

“layers” is an installation that explores the nature and memories within us through thread, moving images, and sound. Footage of nature and landscapes, filmed in different places, is broken down and rebuilt using a custom program, then projected onto layers of thread. The threads divide the light into fine lines and colors, creating different views as time passes and the viewer moves.

For Matsudo International Science Art Festival 2026, the theme “Weaving the Microcosmos” led the work from a mainly flat form into a three-dimensional structure. Threads stretch through two wooden cubes in the detached guest room of Tojo-tei House. The movement of light and the sound were created for this space. Light and shadows pass through the threads and reach the shoji screens, sliding doors, and ceiling, bringing the artwork and the architecture together.

Each cube is a separate work: “microcosmos” and “spectra.”

As its name suggests, “microcosmos” grew out of the festival theme. On the threads stretched across its cube, points of light drift like stars and sometimes streak past like meteors. This light passes between the threads and forms a single large spiral on the shoji screens behind. Depending on where the viewer looks, the same light becomes scattered stars or a spiral of the cosmos.

“spectra” began with the image of a cord coming undone. Treating white light as a single cord twisted from many colors, the work unravels it into colored threads, as a prism does. The natural world, too, is made of countless things spun and layered together. The work undoes these connections and ties them again. From there, a new path emerges.

In “microcosmos,” scattered light is drawn together into a single spiral; in “spectra,” a single strand of white light unravels into colored threads. Inside the two cubes, light flows in opposite directions. Tying and untying: through this back-and-forth, the microcosmos is woven.

Fragments of different places and times meet in the light before us. Watching these changes offers a moment to reflect on the paths we have taken and the landscapes we carry within.

Gallery


Business in charge

コンセプト、空間構成、映像制作、システム構築


Location

科学と芸術の丘 2026

日時
2026.10.24 – 10.25
場所
戸定邸 離座敷(千葉県松戸市)

Credits

Artist

穴井佑樹(non-classic inc.)