"Ashes and Snow" @ the Nomadic Museum

The exhibition "ashes and snow" is taken place at the Nomadic museum in Odaiba from March 11 to June 24.

The exhibition consists of photographic works, film, art installations and a novel in letters, and every one of them shows us nature and person/ people in it. They tells us about our relationship with nature including animals which live in there.

Gregory Colbert, the artist, has long worked with Japanese collaborators to create this series of work. The Nomadic Museum was designed by architect Shigeru Ban, the photographic works are printed on custom handmade washi paper, and cinematographer Koji Nakamura filmed many of the underwater scenes with elephants and whales in which Colbert appears.
"Ashes and Snow" is a work in progress. Over the past fifteen years Colbert has collaborated with more than forty species of animal around the world. (Tokyo Art Beat: http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2007/C7CC)

In his film I sometimes confused which one is human and which is an animal. It is easy, when you see an elephant and a kid, to point out which is which. However, I felt some more humanities in animals such as an elephant embracing a sleeping child in his nose, or an chimpanzee kissing a lady's arm.