Morimura selected approximately 25 artworks from the exhibits at the main Gallery of the Ohara Museum of Art. Particular care was taken in choosing poems that correspond to each artwork. These poems will be rendered through readings by Morimura himself and video. He describes days in the past when art and literature were closely linked as "an era when gaze and poems brought forth echoes between them." This concept will be leveraged today alongside stimulation of the audiovisual senses.

Reading and performance by Yasumasa Morimura

Video director and editor: Hikaru Fujii　                  

Voice recording: Ryota Fujiguchi

Kuraray and Kurabo, both founded by the Ohara family, were also involved in the “Textile Pavilion” in the Osaka Expo in 1970, in which Rene Magritte's Man by Yotsuya Simon was exhibited. “Building on that theme, Morimura's new work appears in an unexpected form.

Furthermore, inspired by the plan for the "Duodecahedron Music Hall" conceived by Soichiro Ohara at the time of the Expo but never realized, Morimura will create an objet d'art speaker and a multi-sound environment comprised of original sound within Yurinso. Will memories from 1970 continue echoing into 2025?

Voice: Yasumasa Morimura

Composition and cello performance: Yuki Nakagawa

Performance recording: Toru Koda

　*Ohara Soichiro, the son of Magosaburo Ohara (1880-1943), the founder of the Ohara Museum of Art, was responsible for the development of the Ohara Museum of Art after World War II. He was also a prominent figure in the Kansai business world as president of Kuraray. In preparation for the 1970 Osaka Expo, he envisioned "a new music venue that would take advantage of the directionality, perspective, and fluidity of sound."

Soichiro loved to saunter through the forest and listen to the birds. There, the sound environment was created through the transformative intermingling of diverse sounds. In that environment both the sound source (the birds) and the audience (as he strolled) were in motion, and a variety of sounds existed, including the fluttering of the trees. In contrast, Soichiro’s love and understanding of classical music was so profound that he felt restricted by the traditional format of the instruments and audience being in fixed positions.

Therefore, he presented the concept of "a new music venue that would take advantage of the directionality, perspective, and fluidity of sound," that included an architectural proposal by Shizutaro Urabe, who had worked with Soichiro on a number of buildings, including the annex of the Ohara Museum of Art.

Unfortunately, this plan was never realized due to the high cost, technical difficulties, and above all, the death of Soichiro in 1968. However, the Steel Pavilion at the 1970 Osaka Expo could be said to have followed in his footsteps, and the Textile Pavilion at the same exposition, in which Kurabo and Kuraray, both founded by the Ohara family, were also involved, also had a strong presence as a place for future-oriented expression.