A forgotten railway, station and platform. What does it mean to forget something,
and what does it mean to be forgotten? Posing these questions, the artist filled
the former Iida station with “lost articles” which are inseparable from a station.
The silhouettes drawn on the waiting room wall and the objects placed at the
office are the negative and positive of the lost articles. Walking through forgotten
umbrellas standing towards the end of the platform, visitors reached a freight
train. They left words for the future on its inner blackboard walls. The forgotten
station was revived as “Small Lost Article Museum.”
A forgotten railway, station and platform. What does it mean to forget something,
and what does it mean to be forgotten? Posing these questions, the artist filled the former Iida station with “lost articles” which are inseparable from a station. The silhouettes drawn on the waiting room wall and the objects placed at the office are the negative and positive of the lost articles. Walking through forgotten umbrellas standing towards the end of the platform, visitors reached a freight train. They left words for the future on its inner blackboard walls. The forgotten station was revived as “Small Lost Article Museum.”
