Statement
Taiwan is a place where multiple layers of history remain embedded in the city, both visibly and invisibly. From the era of Indigenous peoples through successive colonial and governing powers, the city quietly holds accumulated time within its landscapes and structures.
Within this long historical flow, Adachi focuses on the Japanese colonial period and the postwar era—periods that are deeply connected to his own Japanese background and that played a significant role in shaping modern Taiwan. Rather than approaching these histories as political narratives, he examines how they remain as traces embedded in land, architecture, and material surfaces.
Memories held within places and objects persist even when they are no longer visible. Buildings still in use, as well as abandoned and deteriorating spaces, bear marks, stains, and scars that quietly testify to past lives, events, and the passage of time.
As materials weather, memory also fades. What was once essential gradually recedes from collective awareness and risks disappearing altogether.
Through research and material-based practice, Adachi traces these often-overlooked memories—evidence of what once certainly existed—and gives form to both what remains and what is vanishing. His work materializes memory as a layered, physical presence that allows the past to be encountered in the present.