Libraries are filled with the words of the dead. This is why they are often regarded as spaces of death, realms of the afterlife. If that is so, might museums likewise be spaces of death, realms of the afterlife?
Indeed, many artists hope that their works will one day be displayed in museums and remembered forever within the history of art. If so, they are creating their works with their sights set on a space of death, a realm beyond this world.
But then, what is death? What is eternity? What is the present? And what is memory?
Perhaps museums are, in truth, spaces saturated with such questions. Through the vast collection of the Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Masashi Miura explores these profound themes.