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Kyoko Hamaguchi
KOKI ARTS is pleased to announce Worship in Progress, the second solo exhibition at the gallery by New York-based artist Kyoko Hamaguchi. This exhibition will showcase five new works from her ongoing series, Time Medium, which combines photography and painting and has been in development since 2016.
In Time Medium, Hamaguchi uses a pinhole camera, a simple and primitive method, to record the entire process of painting a vase on photographic paper. With the vase motif, Hamaguchi makes reference to the double meaning of the Japanese word “yaku” (焼く), which means both “to fire” (as in firing ceramics) and “to develop” (as in developing photographs in the darkroom). The vases do not take shape within the paintings themselves, which are created using a single shade of black paint that the artist mixes, but become visible in the photographs that capture the process. The vase, a timeless form which has been created in countless shapes by human hands since ancient times and again represented here, points to a universal, almost spiritual ritual of production. Through the act of revealing invisible forms by documenting them in photographs, Hamaguchi’s practice becomes a prayer for conjuring the image of an invisible being.
In Time Medium, Hamaguchi uses a pinhole camera, a simple and primitive method, to record the entire process of painting a vase on photographic paper. With the vase motif, Hamaguchi makes reference to the double meaning of the Japanese word “yaku” (焼く), which means both “to fire” (as in firing ceramics) and “to develop” (as in developing photographs in the darkroom). The vases do not take shape within the paintings themselves, which are created using a single shade of black paint that the artist mixes, but become visible in the photographs that capture the process. The vase, a timeless form which has been created in countless shapes by human hands since ancient times and again represented here, points to a universal, almost spiritual ritual of production. Through the act of revealing invisible forms by documenting them in photographs, Hamaguchi’s practice becomes a prayer for conjuring the image of an invisible being.
Schedule | Jan 10 (Fri) 2025-Feb 15 (Sat) 2025 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Jan 10 (Fri) 2025 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Koki Arts http://www.kokiarts.com/  | ||||
| Location | 1F Rose Bldg., 1-15-2 Higashi Kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0031 | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from exit 4 at JR Bakurocho Station, 3 minute walk from exit A1 at Bakuro-yokoyama Station on the Toei Shinjuku line, 6 minute walk from exit B4 at Higashi-nihombashi Station on the Toei Asakusa line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3865-8650 | ||||
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