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The Place of Painting

Ryosuke Kondo

The world we live in is an extension of the world built by modernity. While technology continues to expand our vision, we are losing our relationship with the earth that lies beneath our feet...

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Fragmentary Thoughts on Ishii Tomohito's "Sub Anaglyph" (/Fault Lines)

Naha Kanie

/ This area — taking the stairs up from the exit of Ikejiri-Ōhashi Station on the Den-en-toshi subway line and heading toward Mishuku along a gently sloping road...

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To the Ground, to Above the Ground, Into and Out of the Crystal Palace

Tomohito Ishii

While walking through urban spaces, I feel a strange sense of floating when I observe the sky and cityscapes reflected in glass curtain walls — and my own reflection among them...

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Disturbing the ⟨Self⟩: Dark Landscapes, the Call of the “Hole”

Ryo Katsumata

1. A Document of Freezing The "underground" that serves as the leitmotif of Part 1 of this project is, as recorded in Nikolay Smirnov’s text piece Chthonopolitics (2022), a figurative image associated with death, the unconscious, and irrationality...

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A Mirror Buried in the Underground of a Mirror

Noi Sawaragi

When I was a child, there was a period when we drew a considerable portion of our household water from a well. This well was just outside the wooden gate at the back of the garden...

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On and around: Thoughts on the “Hole”

Yukiko Shikata

"Subterraneans" (Part 1) and "Mirrorless Mirror" (Part 2) by the art project with the enigmatic name "My Hole: Hole in Art." This is a "critical essay" that developed with some freedom, inspired by two exhibitions curated by Akira Takaishi and Tomohito Ishii, which delved into the motif of the "hole."...

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The Suburb as One's Home Town

Ryo Katsumata

Tomohito Ishii once dug a hole in an empty lot in the suburban town where he was born and raised. This act might appear to be a nostalgic scheme — as though digging back through the strata of the past to imaginatively recover a home town lost to new town development...

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When "A Plant's Response to an Egg" Becomes Art

Miki Okubo

The work La réponse de la plante à l'oeuf (A Plant's Response to an Egg) was presented to mark the partnership between the Paris-based art association ILYAURA and the Paris art space The Window...

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The Pendulum of the Image: Non-Visual Representation

Keisuke Mori

"The word image has a bad reputation." (note 1) "Eye and Mind," the last essay published during the lifetime of M. Merleau-Ponty, appeared in the first issue of Art de France in 1961...

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The Topography of "/"

Tomohiro Masuda

At the far end of the gallery, a painting depicting a white-flowering tree is on display. On the side wall beside it hangs an abstract work rendered in rough grid-like strokes, dominated by vivid greens and reds...

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Art Anatomy

Yasuyuki Nakai

At first glance, this work may appear to depict an unassuming moment of everyday life — a woman wearing a hat among houseplants...

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The Pandemonium of Images

Masayuki Tanaka

In the past, around the time when communication theories based on the structuralist notion of semiotics were popular, communication was said to be founded on code...

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"from/to #3" WAKO WORKS OF ART

Yuichiro Takashima

This is the third edition of a program the gallery has been running since last year to introduce emerging artists...

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