Gallery Koyanagi is proud to announce the upcoming exhibition Small works by renowned Canadian artists Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, opening on Saturday, March 22, 2025. The exhibition will run through Saturday, June 14, 2025, and marks the duo's second collaboration with the gallery, following their first show in 2013. This exhibition is also their first in Japan since the 2018 retrospective at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Ishikawa.

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have captivated global audiences with their groundbreaking multimedia installations, which blend sound and objects to create immersive environments. Known for their innovative Walk series, which engages viewers in walking tours guided by Cardiff’s voice and sometimes accompanied by video imagery, the artists explore the complex relationship between perception, memory, and the physical world. Their large-scale sound installations, which use numerous loudspeakers to build intricate acoustic spaces, have made them icons in contemporary art.

In Small works, the artists take a different approach, presenting a collection of 11 small, wall-mounted pieces that include seven new works shown for the first time in Japan. These intimate assemblages, sometimes partially mechanical, fabricated from various objects collected from around their studio include small horns playing collages of sound, music or voice. They invite viewers into Cardiff and Bures Miller’s playful world. Despite their small scale, these works maintain the duo’s signature style of blending “seeing” and “hearing,” creating immersive environments that stir both fascination and unease.

Notable pieces include The suitcase theatre, a surrealistic miniature stage which combines the physical and the virtual. Hand made figurines enact small dramas that blend the playfully charming and funny with the eerie, enticing the viewer to interact themselves with the figurines. Another work, Mechanism of Drowning, is an assemblage inspired by a textbook article on the study of drowning dogs for medical purposes. Most of the works in the exhibition are silent until the viewer presses a button to trigger sound and sometimes movement.