And The Sky Is Blue is rooted in an inquiry into the peculiar ways human beings organize their lives around longing, expectation, and the desire to be understood. Beneath a peppering of playful visual vocabulary lies a consideration of the psychological and moral architectures through which we assign significance to one another often mistaking familiarity for understanding, sacrifice for virtue, or emotional intensity for profundity.

Drawing upon existential philosophy, queer perspectives, and the absurdities of social convention, the exhibition considers the distance between experience and interpretation: how private realities become entangled with collective assumptions, and how readily our understanding of ourselves is altered by the narratives we pick and chose.

There is also a quieter proposition at work: that serenity may be less a destination than a faculty of attention, cultivated through the recognition of life's ordinary pleasures and fleeting moments of clarity.

Who are the custodians of these luminary moments and how are we built so we might otherwise askew our orientation away from them and towards ages of adrenalizing and familiar umbra?

Neither cynical nor idealistic, the exhibition approaches human behaviour and love with curiosity, irreverence, and a certain philosophical tenderness. It does not suggests that the art of living may depend not upon reconciling every contradiction… but upon discovering what warrant our devotion, and which we might finally allow to remain unanswered.

WITH THANKS
Kura House, Fujiyoshida Japan
Yuta Sugihara
[M] Dudeck
Chloe Chafe
Brandon Michael
Izumi Kobayashi