APK PUBLIC Vol.1

The common space of the Toda Building will be used as a venue for forward-looking public art, offering emerging artists and curators opportunities to present large-scale works that engage with the urban landscape.

The first exhibition will be curated by Iida Shihoko, a curator active in Japan and abroad, and will feature works that reflect the concept of “HELIX―Speculating Infinite Possibilities.”

The goal is to enrich the ways people live and work day to day, by allowing visitors and office workers to experience the space-time of the works and enjoy the interacting with them, so that the sense of stagnation we all feel in these uncertain times can be transformed into a positive, future-oriented outlook.

With the helix as a new symbol of the Toda Building, artists will create works on this theme, characterized by spiral structure, rotation, circulation, sequential connection, pendulum movement, and sustainability that represent the mobility, movement, and flexibility of people who gather in the building, while at the same time evoking aspirations toward upward mobility and sustainability with eyes on the future.