‘You interact with earthen utensils and search into memories involved’

Earthenwares are unearthed most in excavation,

because they were widely used not only as cooking utensils or table wares, but also for preservation, transportation,  and in rituals.
 
Among remains which are usually found as belongings of the ancient authorities, 
earthenware utensils are what reveals the life of ordinary people in the ancient times.
Remains cause people today to recollect daily works of ancient people.
That’s what we can assume.Earthenwares took in what they felt in their everyday life and kept it.
We seeked into what those earthenwares involved and were absorbed in what daily lives of ancient people are like.
Earthenwares are the remains which are suitable for corresponding with people present.
 

In this exhibition, as its title shows, the ancient and the present intermingle 
through earthenwares, creating electronic space while showing ancient remains.
We’d like you to create time of interacting with remains and just have fun, by getting
close to earthenware, talking to it, touching it and listening to it.
In the open space of Chikatsu- Asuka Museum, we tried having a linkage between 
the viewpoint from earthenwares and that from the visitors in the light through the crack of earthenwares,

and inviting visitors to make imagination by the sound from the earthenwares set in various places.
We also tried giving messages with visualized works and by the workshops.

Earthenwares respond in various ways.
History is being made at the moment of imagining how the ancient time was like.
through the earthenwares.Time never stops flying.

Our pondering prevents us from forgetting what was memorized.
In that way, we find out how precious it is to know the present time through the ancient time,

and finally realize the pleasure of living a life.

Osaka University of Arts, Art Planning Department

Chikatsu-Asuka Project Team