At Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA), the exhibition “The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows” is being held from October 13 (Tuesday), 2020 to January 11 (Monday, national holiday), 2021. Among exhibition participants is the Xijing Men, a project-based collaborative team of a Japanese, a Chinese, and a Korean. The MIMOCA magazine presents in two parts an interview with one of its members, Tsuyoshi Ozawa. In this second part, I ask him about the Xijing Men team’s work shown in the exhibition.Interviewer and text: Chisai Fujita, art writerPhotography: Shintaro Miyawaki

At Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA), the exhibition “The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows” is being held from October 13 (Tuesday), 2020 to January 11 (Monday, national holiday), 2021. Among exhibition participants is the Xijing Men, a project-based collaborative team of a Japanese, a Chinese, and a Korean. The MIMOCA magazine presents in two parts an interview with one of its members, Tsuyoshi Ozawa. He talks about the Xijing Men team and its work shown in the exhibition.Interviewer and text: Chisai Fujita, art writerPhotography: Shintaro Miyawaki

Why was the museum built in front of the station? Why contemporary art? The answers to these questions are found in Genichiro Inokuma’s message to people of contemporary society. To understand the distinguishing features of MIMOCA, let us look closely at some of the themes of his message.