March 2026: Group Exhibition IMAGINATION

Shimpei ARIMA

有馬 晋平

Shimpei Arima began his artistic practice while in graduate school, creating sculptural works using sugi (Japanese cedar) found throughout Japan. His signature series, titled "Sugicodama," is carved from cedar and emerges from a dialogue with the human-like spirit he senses within the wood. Arima has exhibited both in Japan and abroad, and his works are installed in various cultural institutions.

Oscar OIWA

大岩 オスカール

I am an artist of in-between worlds. Born in São Paulo to Japanese parents and working internationally, my practice emerges from movement across cultures, landscapes, and psychological states. I use landscape as a living, unstable space where cities, nature, and memory merge, and shifts in scale reflect contemporary uncertainty. Through immersive drawings, including panoramic works in inflatable domes, I surround viewers with imagined envi ronments that slow perception and dissolve boundaries between inner and outer worlds, inviting reflection on how we inhabit fragile, changing environments.

Isshin TANISAKI

谷﨑 一心

Isshin Tanisaki works with the theme of "life's energy and circulation," painting vortices—combinations of color and texture that symbolize energetic motion—to embody vital force on the canvas. Since the early 2000s he has shown landscapes made from dense fields of fine dots, the very origin of his vortex motif. By positioning the vortex as a primordial form underlying all phenomena, and rendering vortex worlds in a minimalist way, Tanisaki reflects on the energy that generates life itself and on the formation of our everyday world and the cosmos.

Iori NAGASHIMA

長島 伊織

Iori Nagashima paints everyday life. Working primarily with figures, still lives, and landscapes, he captures fleeting moments of quiet time on canvas. While pursuing the forms of his subjects and the light that falls on them, his brushwork—emerging from the body—and the accumulated decisions of when to paint and when to hold back bring into view a psychological distance from the motif, a temporal distance from memory, and a shifting relationship with the viewer.

Shimpei YOSHIDA

吉田 紳平

Working primarily with painting, the artist is currently based in Tokyo. Prompted by the experience surrounding the death of his grandmother, he began a portrait series that marked a turning point in his practice. In 2018, he participated in an artist-in-residence program at the artist-run space FRISE in Hamburg, Germany. Engaging with themes such as existence and absence, and memory and forgetting, his work questions the fragility and significance of what is difficult to perceive, what has been forgotten, and what remains invisible—within a contemporary society that often assumes everything that is "seen" can be shared universally with others.