VISIT KANAZAWA, JAPAN - Official Travel Guide

A sensation that feels strangely familiar despite being encountered for the first time. The experience commonly referred to as déjà vu emerges suddenly in the midst of everyday life. This exhibition takes déjà vu as a point of departure to introduce a selection of works from the collection of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, spanning painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installation. 

In recent years, our daily lives have been saturated not only with an overwhelming volume of information, but also with images, texts, and sounds generated from existing material through technologies such as AI—phenomena that increasingly influence the very mechanisms by which we experience familiarity and recognition. Déjà vu may no longer be limited to an inexplicable phenomenon that occurs within the individual psyche, but is becoming embedded in the fabric of our cultural environment. By drawing attention to the contradictions and discomfort that lie beneath déjà vu, this exhibition proposes a key for expanding our awareness outward: bridging consciousness and memory across cultural, regional, and linguistic boundaries, and inviting resonance among different people, objects, places, and times.