"At Random" opens on November 1 to mark the launch of "seeen Harajuku," a new art space in Omotesando, Tokyo.

Spanning the entire building—four floors and a stairwell—designed by Nawa and Sandwich, the exhibition brings together works from a wide range of series, including the new PixCell-Memorandum, around the central motif of "fragments of memory." Nawa’s creative process unfolds through the continual intersection of images, materials, and textures, each feeding back into the others. While seemingly random, these elements form organic connections. In this exhibition, these dynamic developments emerge in dialogue with the spatial experience of the architecture. Each work is presented through a composition or mode of display that differs from previous presentations, allowing visitors to encounter the works unexpectedly as they move up and down through the cave-like interior.

Today, as information circulates globally with ever-increasing intensity and AI trained on this vast flow continuously generates new words and images, our memories have already become fragmented and plural. The world is shaped through combinations of fragments of memory, within which the boundaries between past and present, self and other, remain in constant flux. Nawa presents our experience of this contemporary information environment as a new mode of perception.

The urban spaces we inhabit, in particular, are saturated with an immense volume of informational stimuli. seeen Harajuku was conceived as a place where visitors can temporarily detach their attention from this surrounding noise and immerse themselves in a deeper perceptual experience through creation. The architecture is defined by a dark, louvered exterior that appears enveloped in shadow and a cavernous interior punctuated by countless alcoves, giving the building itself the presence of a sculpture. As Nawa’s works respond to this architecture, a viewing experience particular to this exhibition emerges.

Throughout the venue, sculptures, two-dimensional works, and installations resonate loosely with one another through form, color, and image. These include Nawa’s signature PixCell series and its derivative Prism; Spark, presented in Japan for the first time; Throne, which represents the arrival of AI as a new form of intelligence; and Biomatrix, transformed into a discrete sculptural form through a box-like configuration. Each work reveals aspects and relationships distinct from its previous presentations. Particular attention is also drawn to the dialogue between art and architecture: the lines of Plotter echo the texture of the building’s louvered exterior, while a new iteration of Ether rises through the center of the spiral staircase toward the skylight above.

The exhibition’s theme is perhaps most clearly articulated in PixCell-Memorandum, one of Nawa’s recent explorations of the painterly possibilities of PixCell. The two-dimensional work takes as its motif photographs captured by Nawa in cities across Japan and around the world, fragmented and recomposed into a single image, with countless cells covering its surface. Fragments of urban memory appear and disappear according to the viewer’s perspective, continuously giving rise to new images.

The experience of "At Random" is one of wandering between shifting images and materials. It becomes a journey of gathering fragments of memory, from which each viewer may construct images anew.