Sein und Zeit: The LOCATION Chronicle of Sosho Mochida

Venue：ICHION CONTEMPORARY

     9-7 Nozaki-cho, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-0055

Exhibition Period：2025.5.27 Tue. - 7.5 Sat.

Open：11:00‒18:00 (Last entry at 17:30) ※Closes at 17:00 on the final day

Closed :Sundays, Mondays, and Public Holidays

Admission :：Free

URL：https://ichion-contemporary.com

Since the opening of ICHION CONTEMPORARY, we have consistently focused on artists who developed unique modes of expression in the postwar Japanese art scene, particularly those rooted in the Kansai region. Among them, we are pleased to present the work of Sōshō Mochida, born in Tokyo in 1934 and active for over half a century in Osaka.

This exhibition, the first chronological survey of Mochida’s work, traces the evolution of his thinking and practice through a selection of representative works and new pieces spanning from the 1970s to the present. It includes works in a range of formats—sculpture, painting, and installation—demonstrating the artist’s evolving engagement with material and spatial strategies.

Visitors will encounter recurring motifs emblematic of the LOCATION series—airplanes, shoes, staircases. The airplane functions as an ambivalent symbol of both hope and memory of war; shoes and stairs evoke human movement, traces, and relationships to space. Deep, lucid blue tones also appear throughout Mochida’s works, serving as a vital visual language that evokes air, memory, and the subconscious.

Through its chronicle-like structure, the exhibition highlights the dual movements of “transformation” and “continuity” that define Mochida’s approach to recurring themes. By returning again and again to words like air, blue, trace, airplane, shoe, and staircase, each repetition reverberates at new depths, allowing meaning to accumulate over time and settle within us.

Now in his nineties, Mochida continues to breathe new air and inscribe new traces. His work is not a retrospective, but a proposition—an attempt to engage with the “now” and the “yet to come,” and to quietly ask: Where are we? And what will we leave behind?

In presenting the path of an artist who has remained apart from the noise of his time while observing the world with clarity and persistence, ICHION CONTEMPORARY is honored to share this exhibition.