Now that the word "exhibition" has come to refer to neatly and orderly displays of works like commodities, I wanted to casually create a "non-proper exhibition" that feels like a small festival. That's how Fujishiro Uso Kikaku's "Messy" exhibition began. In 2025, we held "Messy Garden Place" in Tokyo and "Messy Hillside Terrace" in Osaka, and in 2026, we held "Messy Garden Place 2" again in Tokyo, with a total of nearly 80 artists participating to date.
With internet culture as its backdrop, this group exhibition project, which oscillates between communication on social media and exhibitions in real space, also serves as a place where unknown artists and artists with many opportunities to exhibit their work intersect, resulting in a mix of works ranging from "pieces you'd want to casually keep on hand" to "experimental works that could easily be mistaken for trash."
Like a plaza where works of art gather, or like gazing at a untouched garden. Seeing what has been created makes you want to create something else. As such spaces and experiences chain together and amplify, something is "liberated." While creating a place where everyone can casually and joyfully confirm these things, the "messiness" continues to spread.