「Landscape: Memories of Water and Crossing Perspectives」

Venue
ICHION CONTEMPORARY
9-7 Nozakicho, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan

Exhibition Period
June 30 (Tue) – August 1 (Sat), 2026

Opening Hours
11:00–18:00 (Last admission: 17:30)
Exhibition closes at 17:00 on the final day.

Closed
Sundays, Mondays, and National Holidays

Admission
Free

Website
https://ichion-contemporary.com

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Since the 1990s, Miyuki Yokomizo has presented minimalist installation works in Japan and abroad, employing everyday artificial materials such as plastic while exploring time, space, and light as essential elements of her practice. In recent years, through the combination of installation and two-dimensional canvas works, she has continued to develop a unique visual landscape shaped by the relationships formed within exhibition spaces.

In her series of two-dimensional works, which Yokomizo describes as “paintings as sculpture,” she does not use a brush. Instead, oil-coated threads are snapped against the canvas, imprinting traces of movement directly onto its surface. The resulting lines—formed through the chance effects of splattering, accumulation, diffusion, and displacement of paint—allow the work to transcend the realm of flat imagery. They emerge as physical matter existing within real space and as traces of bodily action embedded in the work itself.

Upon visiting ICHION CONTEMPORARY, Yokomizo perceived traces of the traditional nagaya townhouses within the narrow building nestled among the high-rises of central Osaka. These impressions overlapped with memories of Osaka’s historical identity as a city of water. Within a space where natural light penetrates each floor, lingering, shifting, and constantly altering its expression, Yokomizo navigates the boundary between the visible and the invisible, creating fleeting landscapes in which space, light, line, and memory converge.

We warmly invite you to experience Miyuki Yokomizo’s latest artistic explorations presented in this exhibition.