a diner was created inside a chapel at The Nanzan House, where the artist's wedding ceremony took place. For the occasion, the artist brought furniture and everyday belongings from the shared house where he lived, including laundry, cooking utensils, household appliances, and a game console. These were not replicas or objects collected to represent domestic life. They were things actually used in the house, brought into another setting without losing their everyday functions.
Visitors were asked to remove their shoes and were free to spend time in the space as they wished. They could sit down, vacuum the floor, fold laundry, or play a game. Nothing required them to perform a particular action or interpret the objects in a particular way. The familiar gestures of daily life were simply made possible within an unfamiliar setting.
At the center stood a dining table surrounded by four chairs. Among the objects arranged around it were a cracked glass and an intact one, an empty container and another filled to the brim. These contrasting conditions occupied the same space, without being resolved into a single meaning.
The dining table was a familiar presence from the artist's everyday life. It was where people gathered to eat, talk, sometimes disagree, and spend time together. Bringing it into the chapel placed these ordinary experiences alongside the ceremony of a wedding, a moment in which a particular relationship is publicly acknowledged and celebrated.
For a time, the chapel held two different rhythms of life. One belonged to the exceptional occasion of the wedding. The other belonged to the repeated, unfinished activities of living together. The objects carried traces of their previous use, while their presence in this new setting opened them to different encounters.
Rather than reconstructing a domestic interior for people to observe, the work brought elements of an ongoing life into a space where they would not ordinarily belong. What happened there could not be determined entirely by the artist. It depended on how visitors approached the objects, whether they chose to use them, and how they spent their time in the space.
In this movement between home and chapel, ordinary objects and gestures became part of a new situation without being separated from the lives to which they belonged. a diner explored how the meaning of a place, and the relationships that emerge within it, might shift when the familiar conditions of everyday life are carried into another context.
