The exhibition, which has been planned since 2008, features 57 works by 18 artists, presenting their observations, reflections and interpretations of The Times they live in."Allosymbiosis" is the main theme of the exhibition, and the three themes of "allosymbiosis" in Beijing, "Excessive love" in Taipei and "Model Country" in Tainan are held in three places, in an attempt to make a historical review and introduction of Japanese contemporary art.

Ever since the success of Murakami Takashi, the main contribution made by Japanese contemporary art on the global stage has come from such sub cultural forms as Anime, computer games, Otaku and Kawaii. Moreover, a review of work by a new generation of contemporary artists reveals an attempt to combine traditional Japanese aesthetics and the innovative artistic expressive forms inherent in the language of western aesthetics. For the purposes of this exhibition, Soka Art Center invited 17 Japanese contemporary Japanese artists to work with 7 stylistically distinctive Japanese art galleries.

The representation of the self-body in Budi Kustarto’s work is about a never ending self-identification project. Budi Kustarto has started to do this tendency since 2003 when he who is formally well trained as a sculptor, cast his own body as a model for his self-representation sculptures. Budi Kustarto, then transfers his three dimensional self-representation works including its attached issues on the existence of body’s scale, space and dimension into a painting project.

Natee's sense of memory and the past led him to the mystification of western civilization in the Asian context: First, a sense of the past, and childhood, in his reference to antique prints and toys; secondly, myths in Thai culture; and finally, Western influence in Thai (and world) history.

The curators point out that the works in this exhibition do not emphasize too much on artistic symbols, and the artists' creation materials are mostly taken from daily life, expressing the artists' experience, perception and little wisdom on daily life.