Rei Naito: Come and Live – Go and Live This exhibition is conceived as a continuation of the exhibition of the same name held at the Tokyo National Museum until September 23rd (Monday, holiday), and unfolds in a way that overlaps the period of the exhibition, drawing a single large circle. In contrast to the environment of the Tokyo National Museum, which houses historical architecture and a vast collection of cultural properties created over various periods, the Forum, located within the modern architecture of Ginza Maison Hermès, does not have a collection of works from the gallery. The space, which floats in the center of the city and may seem empty at first glance, is filled with natural light through glass blocks, as well as artificial light and colors brought from the city, and is also a place separated from the past. Naito attempts to temporarily house the gaze on life, which is felt even more fleetingly and vividly through the changes in light, and to find "immersion in life" there. The two consecutive venues are structured to be connected by paintings and three-dimensional works. In particular, the series of paintings "color beginning/breath," created daily in the artist's atelier between 2023 and 24, shows the irreversibility of physical time as a record of the artist's life leading up to the exhibition, forming one axis of the narrative circle connecting both venues. The intimate time and traces of play encountered at the Tokyo National Museum with Jomon period earthenware and animal bones, the memories brought from the circuits that toured numerous exhibition rooms, even in this exhibition, which does not completely overlap the period, form a space-time that intersects between fragments of works, air, and gazes, and through the figures of people standing in the space and those leaning against the "Seat" installed at a low position, it brings out a transcendental harmony. Just as we cannot meet people who lived in the past, we cannot physically meet people who will live in the future, nor can we meet the time of yesterday or tomorrow. Therefore, when Naito's call "Come and Live – Go and Live" appears on the horizon of the viewer, do we recognize in the landscape the awe and prayer for nature and life that have continued since ancient times, and the power of creation and resonance with the spiritual world brought about by them? And does it seek that any life heading towards the future be filled with the breath of compassion and blessing?