black cat day dream invites you to an exhibition of books, offering a quiet space and time: a reading room, open until sunset.

The fifteen artist books consider naru and unfold many ways one can become. The artists and authors share how text and image, magazine and sketchbook, gazes and voices can bloom. Presented in juxtaposition and simultaneity, they form a community, gathered from multiple forms and times: welcoming, becoming.

Some of the books are historic and widely read; some are books in process, containing leaves and flowers from the mountains of Kyoto; some are photo albums made for loved ones; and some are notebooks gathering imagination to come.

There will be a writing space for guests to write letters: warm notes, forms of kansōbun, longer letters—to any author they discover. These will be given in friendship by the curators and artists.

Often, the artists and authors will share the space, welcoming people to their curiosity, to wonder together openly and horizontally, and to feel at home.

Co-curated by Isabelle Olivier, Ryunosuke Tateno, Saki Yamada and Marina Amada.