Sagacho Exhibit Space is an alternative space that opened in 1983 and closed in 2000. During those 17 years, Kazuko Koike, who at the time was involved in Parco department store’s advertising direction and the founding of Muji retail store, presided over 106 exhibitions focused on contemporary art featuring fashion, architecture, photography, performing arts, etc. The activities that took place in this fascinating space, which was renovated from the auditorium of the Shokuryo Building built in 1927, became the starting point for many up-and-coming artists and the cornerstone of Japanese contemporary art.
The exhibition “Sagacho Exhibit Space 1983–2000: Fixed-Point Observation of Contemporary Art,” which records and examines those activities, was held at the Museum of Modern Art in Gunma Prefecture. The poster and catalog are from that exhibition. I struggled to somehow show, as one graphic, the movement at Sagacho Exhibit Space, which was a place for progressive creative activities without regard for authoritative valuation or commercialism. I put the keywords received from Kazuko Koike and the spatial photographs taken by Kozo Miyoshi in the same rectangle and arranged them side by side. I would be very happy if you could feel the invisible vibration from the relationship between letters and photographs.
