In the early 1990s, a new current swept through the Japanese art scene: the appearance of a cohort of artists born in the 1960s, who turned their gaze to the everyday and connected with people as part of their art practice. This exhibition focuses on ongoing and serial projects by Tsuyoshi Ozawa, a driver of this trend who from time to time distances himself from the security of locations set up specifically for art and takes to the road to pursue his work. Presenting and examining his art, Tsuyoshi Ozawa: The Invisible Runner Strides on also includes a new commission and never-before- exhibited works. The two decades of Ozawa's creative career to date have seen tremendous change, with social and economic values turned upside down by the end of the cold war, a wave of globalism that mixes people, products and information, fear of terrorism; and in Japan, the bursting of an economic bubble. Faced with developments of this sort, Ozawa has remained focused on his immediate surroundings, and with humorous interpretation and means has gently thrown into relief the contradictions and challenges of modern life, reflecting these in his work. Posing questions from a perspective grounded in everyday realities, Ozawa stresses the process of art production, calling on us as viewers to trade our position as passive art appreciators for that of active participants sharing in the process. Encompassing works from his earliest to most recent projects and including Jizoing, a series of impromptu photos taken on the artist's travels; the Nasubi Gallery series of milk boxes turned into miniature art galleries; The Carpet from the Sky Project consisting of carpets made from recycled plastic bottles discarded at beautiful tourist spots, and Vegetable Weapons, for which the artist made imitation guns from local vegetables in various places, then cooked and partook of them in a party with local people, this exhibition focuses on the consistent 'continuity' of Ozawa's series, looking back on works that reflect a particular time and region through his artistic practice. At the exhibition Ozawa also plans to unveil a new commissioned work consisting of recycled origami paper that is given new form. A further object of Tsuyoshi Ozawa: The Invisible Runner Strides on is to conduct a thorough examination of an important current in Japanese contemporary art, in which artworks act as catalysts for greater connectivity. * The text provided by Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.