I.CEBERG "Roars Inside the Iceberg" to Be Exhibited at TOKYO PROTOTYPE

Jan. 19th, 2026

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I.CEBERG "Roars Inside the Iceberg" to Be Exhibited at TOKYO PROTOTYPE

WOW engages in creative activities that transcend categories and media, guided by the philosophy of "creating excitement in people's hearts." Its wide-ranging expressions are rooted in the individuality and creative impulses of the creators who make up WOW. In an era when the value of creative and production processes is increasingly being called into question, WOW launched the "I.CEBERG" project in 2025 as an effort to reexamine and reaffirm their importance. WOW is pleased to present "Roars Inside the Iceberg" by I.CEBERG at TOKYO PROTOTYPE.

Roars Inside the Iceberg

They do not exist in this world, yet they dwell within everyone's heart. Fear and longing, ugliness and tenderness—opposing emotions layered atop one another, still not even formed into words. We call these "monsters." I.CEBERG is an art collective that seeks these monsters through expression. Participating artists take part as "Maisons," each with distinct themes spanning physicality, form, and collage, exploring modes of expression that cross the boundaries between digital and analog, artificial and organic. We live in an era in which monsters are being erased. Under the agreeable banner of the "optimal solution," AI obscures the depth of being human—conflict, contradiction, and chance. Thus, the monsters that once lay deep within us—frightening, compelling, and at times endearing—quietly disappear. What I.CEBERG seeks to excavate from the iceberg are precisely these monsters. This exhibition brings together key works by five Maisons and the individual stories that emerged from their creative processes, forming an experience akin to peering into the interior of an iceberg. As visitors retrace each Maison's journey of confronting monsters, they may find themselves, before they realize it, facing the monsters lurking within their own hearts. This exhibition itself, where the visible and invisible, fear and curiosity overlap, outlines the very "narrative" that I.CEBERG seeks.

HIRONOBU SONE "BYPRODUCT"

This work addresses robotic forms that emerge as byproducts of rule-based generative processes. These forms are not errors or exceptions; they arise as the natural outcomes of systems functioning exactly as designed. BYPRODUCT serves as a device for experiencing the chance occurrences and distortions that arise from within design and control, through the structural presence of the robot itself.

TAKAFUMI MATSUNAGA "FRAME"

Through the continued practice of walking the city and collaging its landscapes, abstract images began to surface naturally. This work attempts to give three-dimensional form to those images, sculpting them as structures that seem to seep out from photographs, in order to bring autonomous landscapes into being. Moving back and forth across the boundaries between figuration and abstraction, 2D and 3D, the work reveals the rich gradations that lie in between.

TAKUMA SASAKI "Pulsating Light"

Beneath visible beauty lies the pulse of life– enduring through drifting time while remaining connected to its environment and to others. This work uses tree roots once buried deep in the earth to express the vital energy that forms the foundation of life's beauty. The garment that envelopes the roots symbolizes the warm soil that nurtures life, while the protected roots emit a light reminiscent of a living heartbeat. That gentle glow eventually spreads outward, quietly illuminating the surrounding space.

TAKESHI FUNATSU "Bio Remix"

An attempt to re-edit the patterns and markings found in living organisms as fashion. By exploring biological processes such as growth, differentiation, and repetition, the work dissects and expands a fetishistic fascination with natural phenomena through their transition into clothing. For this exhibition, the focus is on sea slugs (nudibranchs), marine organisms with primitive forms yet an extraordinary diversity of pattern variation.

RYO KITABATAKE "Ambiguous Flowers"

Images that exist within memory… gradually deteriorating and becoming embellished over time. The flowers that serve as motifs are formed by amplifying the noise and misreadings that arise during the process of digitizing real-world objects with a 3D scanner. The blurred images on the reverse side depict each flower in a distorted state, captured through a customized digital camera. These images are printed onto metal plates that slowly deteriorate over time.

TOKYO PROTOTYPE

TOKYO PROTOTYPE is an urban creative festival held throughout the streets of Toranomon Hills and TOKYO NODE, where creators, artists, and companies from across disciplines gather to exhibit experimental "prototypes", including products and artworks that utilize technologies such as AI and robotics. This festival brings together a total of 26 creators, artists, companies, and other participants across various fields, ranging from corporations such as GOOGLE HARDWARE DESIGN STUDIO and ZOZO NEXT to research institutions including the University of Tokyo and Keio University Graduate School, and features works that have attracted attention at international venues such as the Osaka-Kansai Expo, Milan Design Week, and Ars Electronica.

Event Overview

Dates: Thursday, January 29 – Saturday, January 31, 2026 Venue: Various locations throughout Toranomon Hills and TOKYO NODE, among others Hours: 11:00–21:00 Admission: Free Organizers: Mori Building Co., Ltd. TOKYO NODE LAB; Nippon Television Network Corporation In cooperation with: Agency for Cultural Affairs Website

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