I first wrote down all the phenomena that have emerged in contemporary society that I thought were related to this theme ["sea of oblivion"], and the…

- Yasumasa Morimura

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

- Yasumasa Morimura

By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of obli…

- Yasumasa Morimura

I planned the exhibition so that it becomes a story where the viewer travels through these islands [of ideas]. Whether the contents of each chapter c…

- Yasumasa Morimura

Of course, the process of curating is different from art making. Exhibition-making is a process that involves collaboration with various participatin…

- Yasumasa Morimura

I was worried that I, the artist Morimura, would have conflicts with the participating artists and develop a strenuous relationship with them. But th…

- Yasumasa Morimura

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a…

- Yasumasa Morimura

To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".

- Yasumasa Morimura

I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of "oblivion" as fundamental t…

- Yasumasa Morimura