teamLab: Yoro Valley | teamLab

Yoro Valley is transformed into an art space that changes with the presence of people living in the now, reconnecting the existence and continuity of a long time.

Yoro Valley was sculpted over a long period of time as the Yoro River continuously carved the earth. The geomagnetic reversal stratum here preserve the world’s clearest traces of the reversal of Earth's magnetic poles during the Chibanian age. Upstream, the Kurotaki Unconformity on the rock face of this valley is selected as one of Japan's Top 100 Geological Sites. A forest with an aged patina, the river that has incessantly carved deep into the earth, and the rock face of the valley’s strata reflects the long time enclosed within it.

teamLab’s art project, Digitized Nature, explores how nature itself becomes art.

Existences that possess a long period of time are turned into a group of artworks as they are, which transform due to the presence of people living in the now. The project explores turning the existence of a long time, the continuity between that time and the now, and the fact that our own existence is part of a long, long continuity of life, into an artwork and a place.