Roppongi Crossing is a series of co-curated exhibitions staged every three years at the Mori Art Museum. The series was first launched in 2004 to provide a snapshot of Japan’s contemporary art scene at a particular moment in time. For this eighth edition, curators from the Mori Art Museum are joined by two internationally active Asian guest curators to present total of twenty-one artists/artist groups under the theme of “time” - including those active in Japan regardless of nationality, as well as those based overseas with Japanese roots.

The exhibition’s subtitle What Passes Is Time. We Are Eternal. indicates the preciousness and transience of time. Through the convergence of the unique, temporal experiences each work offers, this exhibition seeks to reexamine Japanese art from multiple perspectives.