Noritoshi Hirakawa was one of the best-known Japanese artists of the younger generation in Europe in the 00s. Hirakawa's artistic interest is strongly philosophical and sociological and touches upon important questions about existence. For Kunsthalle St.Gallen he was realizing the project «The Echoes in a Mirror», which deals in a very impressive way with the place St.Gallen and at the same time with a border-crossing world map of understanding one's own existence. Several times he has visited the city of St.Gallen in the run-up to the exhibition and filmed in public places with a video camera. With pedestrians who happened to be passing by, he conducted short interviews about the reason they had come to the respective place, why they chose that particular place, and what it meant to them. In a complex video and sound installation, Noritoshi Hirakawa presents both the video and interview material as well as a very specific dramaturgy of the sequence of different colors and sounds in each room of the Kunsthalle with two video projections on a large scale. Noritoshi Hirakawa shows a cartography of sensitivities charged with the everyday, emotions, ideas, longings and fears, and in a certain way his project was also related to various considerations regarding the turn of the millennium. But this connection is neither placative nor pedagogical, but rather means the immanent question of how the enlightened and yet yearning human being can reassure himself of his existence again and again.