Oct. 13 - Nov. 17, 2019
Kumamoto-Jo Hall
Entrance lobby
Kumamoto (Japan)
”Forest of Numbers | 2019-2118”
Special installation for the opening of Kumamoto-Jo hall in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto. The installation visualizes the future 100 years from 2019 to 2118.
About “Forest of Numbers”
As part of “100 colors” series, Emmanuelle unveiled in 2017 the installation "Forest of Numbers", created for the 10th Anniversary of The National Art Center, Tokyo. The installation visualized the decade of the future from 2017 to 2026, each layer employing 4 digits to express the relevant year such as 2, 0, 1, and 7 for 2017. More than 60,000 pieces of suspended numeral figures from 0 to 9 were regularly aligned in three dimensional grids. A section was removed, created a path that cut through the installation, invited visitors to wonder inside the colorful forest filled with numbers.
Since 2017, "Forest of Numbers" has been explored in various forms, sizes of numbers, meaning of numbers, depending on the environment and exhibition space.