Our Legacy Tokyo hosts Tobias Bradford’s unsettling new works
The Stockholm and London based artist brings two provocative installations to the Japanese flagship, transforming a former Daikanyama apartment into a space where technology and the human form collide.
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Tobias Bradford’s practice orbits the disquieting and the corporeal. The Swedish artist, who divides his time between London and Stockholm, fashions work that unravels the relationship between technology, flesh and consciousness, layering unease beneath surfaces of apparent calm. Now, two of his pieces occupy Our Legacy Tokyo, installed within the brand’s flagship in a converted Daikanyama apartment that amplifies their domestic strangeness.
Third Person rises vertically from floor to ceiling, a skeletal apparatus of suspended lines and mechanical pulleys anchored to a burnt ochre disc. The work breathes with quiet menace, its geometry deliberate and uncanny, as though observing the space and those who move through it. Oro // Worry performs similarly, threads descending like nerve endings or restraints, the apparatus calling to mind both medical contraption and art historical gesture. Neither work announces itself loudly; each asks instead to be inhabited, considered, felt against the skin.
The choice to present these pieces within a residential setting rather than a white cube gallery intensifies their psychological weight. A domestic apartment becomes a stage for unease, where the everyday is rendered strange. Bradford’s installations acknowledge the boundary between observer and observed, between the self as subject and self as watched entity, questions that resonate quietly through Our Legacy’s architectural restraint and minimal palette.
Our Legacy Tokyo is located in Daikanyama. The works remain on view at the flagship store.
Imagery courtesy of Our Legacy (@ourlegacy).