Introduction
This exhibition of a selection of projects by Toru Mitani / studio on site is about how small things have a significant, perceptual impact on diffuse landscapes. The title itself is an incitement to connect ideas that operate at vastly different scales. Fabric, when coupled with the word landscape, elicits notions of system, of underlying structure, grain, orientation, or texture of the continuous ground. Details, on the other hand, are things-in-themselves, discreet and contingent, requiring a shift in focus to dissect and scrutinize technique, dimension, and materials. However, a second definition of fabric from the latin fabricais, precisely, to make, to fabricate, and faberthe craftsmen. In other words, fabric is both system and craft.
Over the past two decades Mitani’s work has explored in a sustained manner how perception…