The Coming World 2075_Technology and the Sublime
Thursday, 11/2/2025 - Sunday, 16/3/2025
The Coming World 2075_Technology and the Sublime
Thursday, 11/2/2025 - Sunday, 16/3/2025The Coming World 2075_
Technology and the Sublime
In a city of the future, the rain falls relentlessly. The deluge has gone on for years. It has altered people’s imaginations and desires, and they dream of a boundless arid desert. In the cinema, clips from the movies Solaris and La Jetée play on a loop, set to Bach chorale preludes—serving as a fragmented depiction of the “coming world.” The Coming World gives real urgency to the theme of our relationship with nature, highlighting challenges such as climate change, species extinction, pollution, renewable energy and overpopulation. This allows us to think about nature from a distinctly relational perspective, and in so doing bring about new knowledge and technologies within both our transcendental and everyday knowledge of nature. As a result, technology will change human minds and bodies in ways that will allow us to adapt to the natural environment of the coming world. The astonishing evolution of technology has exceeded the limits of our comprehension, and it is beginning to take on an eerie feeling. The twentieth century psychologist Sigmund Freud referred to this as the “uncanny.” This phenomenon, in which it feels as if something familiar has transformed into something alien, is a powerful aesthetic theme in an age in which AI and biotechnology are deeply integrated into everyday life. When such technology exceeds the limits of human scale and comprehension, both awe and anxiety are engendered by what is considered by this exhibition to be the “technological sublime.” Contemplating contemporary art that evokes this feeling, it seeks to reconsider beauty and awe in the now. Martin Heidegger's essay The Age of the World Picture sees the present as an era of representation in which the dominance of media and technology have become evident, and he presents a critical view of this media society. With humans becoming the agents in the process of representing the world, he calls the world bound together as this representation the “world picture.” He also suggests that by ushering in cooperativity through the media, modern subjectivity could lead to a totalitarian world in which subject and object are immersively united (“planetary imperialism”). Modern society has lauded the “universal values” of freedom, human rights, and democracy. But it has also affirmed limitless human desire, and the capitalism that is driven by this desire has become globalized, leading to fierce competition among nations over their national interests. Based on the premise of a contemporary aporia (a difficult problem with no solution), this exhibition will convey messages from artists who come up with new protocols for communication, intervening in the sphere of public decision-making.
Takayo Iida (Exhibition Curator/Director of the Sgùrr Dearg Institute for Sociology of the Arts)
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Daisuke Ida / Synoptes 2023 -
Andrea Samory / Chimera 1.1 2023




The Coming World 2075_
Technology and the Sublime
- Dates
- February 11 – March 16, 2025 / 11:00 – 20:00
* gallery closed on February 17
- Venue
- GYRE GALLERY丨
GYRE 3F, 5-10–1 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
- Contact
- Navi Dial 0570-05-6990 (11:00–18:00)
- Organizer
- GYRE Gallery /
Sgùrr Dearg Institute for Sociology of the Arts
- Planning & curation
- Takayo Iida
(Director of the Sgùrr Dearg Institute for Sociology of the Arts)
- Co-curation
- Yohsuke Takahashi
- Graphic Design
- Nanami Norita
- Atrium Design
- COVA (Taketo Kobayashi, Hikaru Takata, Haruka Ohta)
- Exhibiton production cooperation
- Artifact
- Photography collaboration
- Mori Koda
- PR direction
- HiRAO INC
- Exhibiting artists
- Ai Makita, Daisuke Ida, Andrea Samory, and Ionat Zurr
- PRESS CONTACT
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HiRAO INC
|#608 1-11-11 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
T/03-5771-8808|F/03-5410-8858
Contact : Seiichiro Mifune / Shohei Suzuki