Image: Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama has announced its next collection exhibition at its Hayama venue, titled 'Shadows, Masks – Darkness in Contemporary Art'. The museum shared reference material for the show on its website, pointing to an upcoming presentation drawn from its own collection and focused on the idea of “darkness” in contemporary art.
The announcement appears under the Hayama Museum’s materials for the next collection exhibition, situating the project within the institution’s ongoing programme of collection-based displays. The museum, based in Kanagawa Prefecture, operates the Kamakura and Hayama sites under the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama name, and regularly presents exhibitions that draw on its holdings as well as related curatorial research.
The Japanese title of the exhibition, 'たそかれ、かはたれ―現代美術における“翳”', signals a conceptual framework built around shadow, dimness and obscurity. The English rendering provided in the news item, 'Shadows, Masks – Darkness in Contemporary Art', suggests that the exhibition will explore how contemporary artists have engaged with states of concealment, ambiguity or reduced visibility through works in the museum collection.
No full checklist, curatorial statement or dates were included in the source material made available in the post, so the museum’s announcement currently establishes the exhibition title and its collection-exhibition format rather than the complete public programme. The reference document was posted as a press-release resource on the museum website, indicating that further details may be presented through the institution’s own channels.
For the museum, the exhibition continues a line of collection-based presentations that allow the institution to foreground themes rather than a single artist or market trend. By framing the show around “darkness” and “shadows,” the Hayama venue places emphasis on an interpretive idea that can link multiple works in the collection while giving viewers a focused lens through which to read contemporary art.
The museum’s announcement identifies the exhibition as the next collection presentation at the Hayama site, but does not provide further timing information in the material supplied. The exhibition is therefore presently known through its title, language of presentation and placement within the museum’s collection programme.
