Czech artist Katerina Seda (born 1977) runs projects in which she proposes games involving members of her family or people from other close-knit communities while being inspired by small things in daily life that appear either problematic or obvious. The projects are eventually presented in the form of installations, drawings and videos. Over the last few years, Seda has rapidly gained a reputation in Europe and the United States. She has participated in several large international exhibitions and will participate in a project organized by London's Tate Modern in 2011. This will be the first time she exhibits her work in Japan.

For her early and now representative work There's Nothing There (2003), Seda, who had discovered that many people in a Moravian village near her hometown did the same things at the same time every Saturday, made a typical schedule for them and then, one day, asked the villagers to follow it. In Over and Over (2008-09), which was commissioned by the 5th Berlin Biennale, Seda focused on the idea that walls and fences between houses in the area where she lived had gradually become higher, resulting in less and less communication between her neighbors. In response, she created replicas of the walls on a vacant plot of land in Berlin, and then got her neighbors to come with ladders and other implements so that they could scale the walls and thus become reacquainted with each other.

Seda's projects, which are brimming with humor, act as mediators for improving interaction between people and at times present actual solutions to real social problems. The works provide a glimpse into both a sense of the issues facing the Czech Republic as a whole – the advancement of capitalism and the country's admission to the European Union, for example – and also those issues of local people's everyday life.

* The text provided by Mori Art Museum.

Opened dates: November 27, 2010 - February 27, 2011