Zaim is dirty. The floor is scuffed, the windows old, the building a strange maze of rooms with low ceilings. Compared to the slick show on a couple blocks away at this year's Yokohama Triennale, the exhibition space that used to be a government office building is beat-up and ready for trouble.
Currently Zaim is housing "The Echo," an exhibition of 21 Japanese creators in their 30s to 40s that runs till Oct. 5. Organized by the artists Kengo Kito, Satoru Aoyama, Ichiro Isobe and Daisuke Ohba, as well as Haruka Ito of the gallery magical, ARTROOM in Ebisu, the exhibition is a response to the lineup for this year's triennale.
"As soon as I saw the big-name international curators selected for the Yokohama Triennale, I knew there was no chance for Japanese artists to show our generations' art to the audience," Aoyama said Tuesday night.