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Chie Matsui: Picture – Richabelle Aterre “That Which Utters, That Which Suppresses”

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Chie Matsui

This exhibition is the fourth installment of Matsui Chie’s ongoing Picture series, which began in 2017.

Following the previous exhibition, Pictures and Their Friends—Between Curtains, this show features works in pastel (the primary medium for this iteration), as well as watercolor-based mixed techniques, oil painting, and neon. The title, Richabelle Aterre, comes from a work Matsui created last year. Using a monotype printmaking technique, the original image was transferred in reverse, revealing a mirrored, fictional world. To the inhabitant of this imagined world, Matsui gave the name Richabelle Aterre, a name spun from her imagination.

This exhibition unfolds as a stage for the world where Richabelle Aterre resides, with a short narrative serving as an entry point into that realm. The subtitle of the exhibition, That Which Utters, That Which Suppresses, evokes the emotional tension embedded within the works, feelings that, for Matsui, took shape as a kind of silent pressure. These sensibilities are linked to the world Aterre dwells, brought into relation through the mediating presence of the ‘Picture.’

Schedule

Jun 21 (Sat) 2025-Jul 13 (Sun) 2025