Speaking of artistic exhibitions, they are often delicate, so we have to appreciate art from a distance and go through it according to its instruction for use. Here are the things whose appeal is evoked while people are practically using the pieces in a natural way, for example sitting or chatting. This exhibition is made up of pieces that exist in our daily life, proving we can have a tremendous time with them. The pieces have been placed in a space, for two weeks, where our body can experience them. Surely, those pieces have the strength for setting up as marketable products.

In the space like this, which overturns artistic common sense upside down, people experience a fresh surprise and feeling of comfort. A couch that glows faintly and whitely. Everybody suspects that they are allowed to sit on it. Their faces relax into a smile. If they are timid they are encouraged to do relax and enjoy the experience. Once they sit, the color that the couch gives off timidly changes with a soft touch. If two sit on, the color changes gradually. If three, it changes again.

Even if the position to sit on is moved, it turns into another color. Those light and color vary softly the same as the touch of the couch. Especially women feel the touch – as if it folds with – comfortable with being surprised. Yuki Yagisawa, teaching assistant and Shinya Matsuyama, technical officer for Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music that created this peace “Fuwa Pica”. The couple consider it their joy that they present the comfort and amusement, which the light and touch weave, to more people. They have been going on improving and releasing their pieces, attempting to spread them as merchandise or interior design ideas. The space for display is not only for expression, but also for research and getting feedback from the visitors to put towards practical use. It is the same as “Surroudings”, which made the couple at the opening intimate. This effect for alerting the senses, its design and packaging to prompt the effect have become depended by leading-edge researchers who work towards the practical use of future computers and their ubiquity. The couple has just set up their own company whose name is same as the couple’s name, to answer requests of designing things.

There is a connection that a game organizes. It is a masterpiece “loopScape” by Kuwakubo Ryota. It is a shooting-game with dot graphics on a cylinder-shaped screen. For this game you do battle, moving around this screen and searching for your opponent. It is simple, but requires your body to move. This makes a couple feel solidarity to enjoy the game together and produces smiles. Another piece by him is “Vomoder IT devolution”. This piece, whose name is likely to ridicule IT revolution at present, is a “phonovision”. Its body reminds one of an old-time round shape TV. However, this phone vision may give the false information. The character of cute dot graphics is waiting on the screen with cute eyes. This character moves like chatting in reply to the other’s voice. The character remains chatting with the cute face even if you get angry or shout. Before the cuteness, you have no choice but to be comforted. He said, “I don’t think that digital information should be sent correctly. I guess that a portion of false information makes a rich connection”. Then, he made this “phonovision”. A little child is pressing her mother on the phone for tales. On the monitor of the mother’s side, the character , who is opening its mouth wide, presses for tales, too. Also the face of the mother holding the receiver is smiling.