"War Painting / Heterotopia - The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Edition" is a project to ‘exhibit’ at other locations paintings depicting war scenes that are held in the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. The Japanese military commissioned the production of the majority of these war paintings between 1937 and 1945. After the war, paintings collected by GHQ were seized by America, but were returned to Japan in 1970 on indefinite loan, and 153 are currently held in the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

"War Paintings / Heterotopia – National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Edition" is a project that “exhibits” war paintings from the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) in a different location. Many of these war paintings were commissioned by the Japanese military between 1937 and 1945. After the war, the paintings were confiscated by the General Headquarters (GHQ) and taken to the United States. In 1970, they were returned to Japan in the form of an “indefinite loan,” and 153 works are currently housed in the collection of MOMAT.　
 
In this exhibition space, no actual paintings are on display. Instead, visitors can scan QR codes to hear a reading of a poem created based on a specific war painting. Each poem is written by a poet from the country that is depicted in the painting or otherwise associated with the painting in some way. The readings are performed by the poets themselves. As visitors listen to the readings, they are invited to imagine the paintings stored in MOMAT’s archive. In doing so, the war paintings—though not physically present—are "exhibited" in this space.