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Contemporary Japanese artist Miyajima Tatsuo (1957-) admired painters such as Aoki Shigeru and Saeki Yuzo and studied painting at Tokyo University of the Arts. However, he struggled with the challenge of verbalizing messages within the framework of painting and began to explore self-expression through mediums like performance and installation art. In 1987, Miyajima held an exhibition at the Lunami Gallery. During this exhibition, he drew inspiration from a passage in Anti-Oedipus and devised three concepts — "Continuity," "Connectivity," and "Endurance" — by combining Buddhist thought and cosmology, and presented works using digital counters with flashing LEDs. This exhibition marked a turning point in his career, leading to his selection for the young artists' section at the Venice Biennale the following year, thus propelling Miyajima to prominence as an artist.

The work Time Train to Auschwitz - No.2 was showcased at the artist's solo exhibition Time Train – Zeit, Zahl und Kosmos at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen in Recklinghausen, Germany, in 2008. As the title suggests, this work tells the story of a train to Auschwitz, symbolizing the Holocaust during World War II. Recklinghausen, a coal mining town, had an extensive railway network used for transporting fuel. Miyajima focused on the history of many Jews being transported to concentration camps via this railway network during World War II. The blue numbers counting down from 9 to 1 represent the Jewish victims. The numbers expressed in this work satirize the continuity of life cycles forcibly taken away by absurdity, embodying Miyajima's sincere prayer and message against inhumane history and for peace. This series, which was re-exhibited in 2020 at the Chiba City Museum of Art during the exhibition Tatsuo Miyajima Chronicle 1995-2020, holds a significant position in discussing Miyajima's practice.

“Time Train – Zeit, Zahl und Kosmos”, May 5 - July 20, 2008, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany
“GENERATION Z”, November 16 - December 15, 2019, The Mass, Tokyo