The conceit of "From My Window" — an exhibition that covers Yoko Ono as a conceptual artist from the 1950s onwards — is to focus on her connection with Tokyo. Since it's at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art, maybe that's to be expected, but this does not necessarily jibe well with Ono's reputation as constantly challenging geographical, political and social boundaries.
The exhibition opens with an installation of small antique cricket cages suspended from the ceiling, each with a metal plate engraved with the date and place of historical human tragedies, among which the shooting of John Lennon appears.
The following room is filled with splintering panes of glass which have each been shot with a single bullet, and have the text "GO TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLASS AND SEE THROUGH THE HOLE" etched at the bottom. An installation created in 2009, this is characteristically indicative of Ono's work being technically minimalist, often based on engaging her audience as collaborators, and, considering that all the panes, except for one, are mounted directly on the wall and can only be viewed from one side, it's an invitation to go beyond the physical and extend the notion of art to include ephemeral acts of the imagination.
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