A video work titled “Not all who wander are lost.”, created through a collaboration between Ryuta Tomiyama (HASSHIKI) and Hybrid Leisureland, will be exhibited in the video works exhibition “G.F.E.G.” Ryuta Tomiyama is responsible for the visuals, and Hybrid Leisureland—under his personal name Hidetoshi Koizumi—is responsible for the music. The exhibition will be held at Sony Imaging Gallery (Ginza, Tokyo) from November 7 to 20, 2025.
[ Participating Artists ]
Hybrid Leisureland / Ryuta Tomiyama
[ Work Information ]
| Title | Not all who wander are lost. うろうろしているように見えて、迷っていないこともある。 |
| Statement | We don’t look back. We walk forward every day. And yet, we don’t know whether life is truly moving forward. The more we try to confirm it—“Am I really progressing?”—the more anxious we become. Even so, we keep walking, as if we can see the destination. As if we are escaping from something. Our steps do not hesitate, even though we have no idea what awaits us at the end of the road. |
| Description | Video: 12 min 20 sec We walk “forward” each day, but the final destination—where it is, and what lies there—remains unclear. Perhaps because of that, there are moments when we lose ourselves and our perception of the world becomes blurred. And still, we continue to move forward—forward—guided by the lights of others who are feeling their way through the same era. It seems that this is how we find joy, and how we feel alive. This work is built on a base layer of “footage of walking forward,” filmed on a smartphone by musician Goki Koizumi. On top of that, it layers person detection, object detection, edge detection, and particle expressions emitted from contours. The size and shape of the detected light, as well as the contours of the world itself, respond in real time to Koizumi’s music, shifting moment by moment. Eighty clips filmed in different locations form a four-minute sequence. Each time the sequence loops, every scene resumes from a point slightly further ahead than before. As forward motion continues, the layers of reality and analysis peel away one by one. Yet the layer that senses “people” remains—unstable, trembling—and produces light at the moment of recognition. A faint clue that guides tentative forward motion, even as an individual’s field of vision thins. |
[ Exhibition Information ]
| Title | Video Works Exhibition “G.F.E.G.” |
| Date | Nov 7 – Nov 20, 2025 11:00 – 19:00 |
| Venue | Sony Imaging Gallery |
| Artists | Norihiro Kuroda Hidetoshi Koizumi / Ryuta Tomiyama Yukiko Sugino Riru Nakayama |
| Admission | Free |
| Official site | https://www.sony.co.jp/united/imaging/gallery/detail/251107/ |
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