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The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa will hold a children’s picture-book program on July 25 tied to ‘Rōjō, Ojama Desu ka?’ (‘Is the Road in Your Way?’), with artist Suzuki Yasuhiro providing a work introduction as part of the session. The museum says the event is free and open to children through adults, with younger children asked to attend with a parent or guardian.
The program is scheduled for two sessions on Saturday, July 25, 2026, from 11:00 to 11:50 and from 14:00 to 14:50 in the museum’s Art Library. According to the museum, the sessions are intended to let visitors enjoy picture books while becoming familiar with exhibitions and hands-on making activities. After the reading, participants will also play together in the museum’s Globe Jungle area.
The event is organized as part of the museum’s Art Library Program, which combines reading with other learning activities. The museum notes that it has also run related formats that mix children’s studio workshops and museum exploration, but this particular program centers on picture books and the featured project linked to Suzuki’s work.
Suzuki Yasuhiro, born in Shizuoka in 1979, is described by the museum as an artist whose work gives fresh perspectives to familiar objects. His video installation ‘Play Equipment Perspective,’ made in 2001, won the annual grand prix on NHK’s Digital Stadium, and his later projects have traveled through art festivals and exhibitions in Japan and abroad. The museum cites works including ‘The Ship in the Zipper,’ ‘Blinking Leaves’ and ‘Air Man’ among the pieces that question how viewers see the world.
The Kanazawa museum also connects the event to Suzuki’s long relationship with the institution. It says that in 2014 it mounted the project ‘Suzuki Yasuhiro: Laboratory of Experimenting Metaphors’ based in the Design Gallery. Suzuki was awarded the 2014 Mainichi Design Award, and the museum says he is currently a professor in Musashino Art University’s Department of Spatial Design and a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology.
The event page says Suzuki is carrying out a residency-based production project in Kanazawa during fiscal 2025 as part of the museum’s artist-in-residence program. The session on July 25 is free, with a capacity of five groups per session and advance reservations prioritized, at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Art Library.
