Setagaya Art Museum

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The building's outer steel windows, seeming to slowly open toward the low sky, give the impression that sunlight is waiting to spread beyond the photograph's frame. Walking along the steel path of the courtyard, what one senses at a glance is not the passage of time, but a silence held within the moments captured by photographs. In particular, the flow of curation, which seems to gently guide visitors' footsteps, emphasizes the emotional depth that photography holds, transcending the limits of media art. Though light does not graze the surface of the photographs, the calm stillness that settles over them seems to quietly enclose the time within each scene. In an atmosphere where the place itself seems to whisper to those who love photography, anyone who visits this museum, wherever and whenever, comes to realize that photography is a volume and a window through which to view the world.