As the vol.3 exhibition of the Tetoba Museum, soixante-seize by Kenji Yamaguchi "Vondu Sudest (Southeast Wind)" The event will be held from Sunday, June 1st to Tuesday, June 10th, 2025.
Can clothes become vessels that hold memories?
Landscapes are hand-sewn onto disassembled clothing.
A quiet attempt at reconstruction, weaving together memories of the Goto wind and the shapes of the body, unfolds throughout the space of the Tetoba Museum.
We hope you will listen carefully to the stories contained within each garment, surrounded by the scent of incense and the shadows of light.
■ Exhibition overview
Exhibition title: soixante-seize by Kenji Yamaguchi "Vondu Sudest (Southeast Wind)"
Date: June 1st (Sunday) - June 10th (Tuesday), 2025
Venue: Tetoba Museum (335-1 Tomie, Tomie-cho, Goto City, Nagasaki Prefecture)
Opening hours: 10:00-16:00
Closed: Open daily during the exhibition period
Admission fee: Free
Organizer: te to ba LLC
Instagram: @tetoba_museum
■ Brand Profile
soixante-seize
This collection was created by dismantling and reconstructing each piece of clothing that would have been thrown away.
The clothes are reconstructed while preserving the texture and shape of the materials, and invisible memories and time are sewn into them.
"Recording memories through clothing" - a brand founded on childhood memories spent in Goto.
This is a proposal for new clothing that takes a different context from mass production and consumption, and sees clothing as "the place of expression closest to the body," with themes of physicality, regeneration, and narrative.
■ Artist profile
Kenji Yamaguchi
Clothing designer. Spent his childhood on Fukue Island in the Goto Islands. Worked at a repair shop in Tokyo for 10 years, mastering the structure and restoration techniques of clothing. After that, he began his own creative endeavors, commuting between Tokyo and Paris. While continuing to create one-of-a-kind clothing centered on deconstruction and reconstruction, he launched his new brand, soixante-seize. Based on the theme of the phrase "haenkaze" (southeast wind), which remains in his grandfather's memory, his first collection, which connects memory and the body, will be unveiled for the first time in Goto, his birthplace.