BETWEEN TIME & SPACE
cociety, Seoul
December 1 to 3, 2025
T.T's first exhibition in Seoul, Korea, "Between Time & Space," ran for three days at cociety. Built around the collected items Takahashi left behind and the T.T collection, and weaving together installation, performance, and music, the exhibition unfolded his thinking in several layers.
Room One | Reviving relics of the past, excavating artifacts of the future
In the first room, video works expressing T.T's philosophy and its representative pieces were shown alongside the objects Takahashi had studied for many years. Clothing from America and Europe more than a hundred years old, drapery folds of Buddhist statues and fragments of old wooden architecture taken from a temple founded in the year 700, portraits from 1920s America, and fabric samples once used by tailors of that era. As these items from different times and lands gathered in one room, Takahashi's philosophy of reviving relics of the past and excavating the artifacts of the future took on visible form.
Room Two | Endless time
In the second room, the team built a tea room installation. Beside it stood photo panels of sculptures that Takahashi created with the stone sculptor Masatoshi Izumi under the concept of "endless time." The eternal time held within stone as a material, and the time of "one moment, one meeting" in chanoyu: two ways of measuring time overlapped within the same room.
Tea seat, performance, and sound
During the exhibition, a standing tea service was set up with the help of TeaRoom Inc., and tea was served with sweets prepared by the Kyoto based art collective Ochill and the Kyoto sweets master Masahiro Kanaya. On December 2, Eriko Mikubo, tea practitioner and representative of Tea Knot, gave a performance that drew the entire space into the gestures of preparing a single bowl of tea.
The music flowing through the venue was composed especially for the show by the sound artist Tomoko Sauvage. Her distinctive sound, made using water, tied together the different layers of time held in garments, Buddhist statues, stone, and tea into one space.
