YOKOTA TOKYO is pleased to present "Noboru Takayama and Ten Ten."
Ten Ten was a series of four exhibitions held between 1973 and 1977, independently organized by artists using their own homes and surrounding areas as venues. Moving away from established exhibition spaces such as museums and galleries, the artists made everyday living spaces into sites for presenting their work, while visitors moved from one location to another to see it.

Noboru Takayama participated in all four editions of Ten Ten. Following his work in SPACE TOTSUKA 70 in 1970, he continued to exchange ideas with artists of his generation while moving beyond established art institutions and making everyday life itself a site of artistic practice.

This exhibition presents works and performances Takayama carried out as part of Ten Ten, drawing on a group of photographs preserved in his studio.
Pouring water, throwing nails and cords, projecting light… The photographs that capture these actions record not only the works themselves, but also the processes through which they took shape, the people who were present, and the scenes of everyday life in which they unfolded.

By tracing some of the ways Takayama sought to act upon the everyday through “Ten Ten,” we hope the exhibition offers an opportunity to consider his practice anew. We also hope that these photographs convey something of the atmosphere of the time, and of a bodily mode of grasping and engaging with the world—one that remains relevant to artistic practice and to our own experience today.

The photographs and related materials carefully organized by Takayama’s wife have been fundamental to this exhibition. We are also deeply grateful to Koichi Wada (formerly of the Miyagi Museum of Art) for his advice and for contributing the accompanying text. We extend our sincere gratitude to them both.