Taketo Muroi - The Silent Orders 10

Technique: Promptography on fine art paper
Image size: 45 x 30 cm
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Year: 2025

The Silent Orders 10 – White Cube

With No. 10, the series reaches its quietest, yet most radical point. The so-called "white cube" appears here not as a neutral exhibition space, but as condensed order itself. Architecture becomes a gesture: smooth, translucent, almost dematerialized. All the narrative, cosmic, and energetic elements of the previous works have not disappeared, but rather been absorbed—folded into a maximum reduction.

In retrospect, this work marks a consistent shift within the series. Nos. 1–3 established cosmic and geological orders, Nos. 4–6 introduced machine, ritual, and subject, and Nos. 7–9 opened up energetic and technological structures. No. 10 , however, avoids any symbolic overload. It presents order as a space that no longer explains anything, but merely enables.

The central, horizontal element—a precisely placed golden line—appears like a measuring instrument without a scale, an artifact without function. It is reminiscent of the antennas ( No. 9 ), the threshold ( No. 5 ), and the machine bodies ( No. 4 ), but here it is stripped of its operational significance. What remains is pure presence. Order as a state, not as action.

The white cube thus functions as the endpoint and mirror of the entire series: a place where human expectation, curatorial tradition, and algorithmic image production overlap. Here, the AI ​​no longer creates a design but accepts emptiness as the result. The image asserts nothing—and therein lies its authority.

The Silent Orders 10 is not a conclusion in the narrative sense, but a pause. A silent order that no longer directs, but waits.