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Kana Kawanishi Gallery is pleased to present “Home,” a solo exhibition by 鯰 [Namazu], starting August 2, 2025. This will be the gallery’s first solo show in five years since “Real-Life Escape Room” (2020).
鯰 [Namazu] is a team formed in 2018 by Yoshiki Omote, Shoma Fujimura, and Taichi Moriyama. The three, who also work individually as artists, have been based in Toride City, Ibaraki Prefecture. They focus on performance and interactive elements inspired by their everyday life and routines, especially their daily drinking sessions. For example, in their solo exhibition, “Real-Life Escape Room,” they created a two-story escape game inside a white cube gallery space, flipping the usual relationship between “seeing and being seen” by combining artwork viewing with solving riddles, which drew significant attention.
Many art collectives have defined roles for each member, but 鯰 [Namazu] has not created such a social structure. They also seek to reexamine the relationship between the artist and the viewer by intentionally including miscommunication and occasional clashes that happen during the creation of their works.
In this exhibition, their first solo show in five years, they will mainly showcase new video works, including a documentary road movie “Takoyaki in the Center of the World,” shot in Australia, along with a local series touring Nishitokyo City, the hometown of Fujimura and Moriyama, and Takatsuki City, Omote's hometown. For this project, the three members of 鯰 [Namazu] traveled to Australia to visit Uluru (Ayers Rock), the world's second-largest monolith. Uluru is considered sacred by the indigenous people, and in the 1980s, the Australian government returned ownership of the land to its original owners, the Anangu (a term used by several Aboriginal Australian groups in the Western Desert region to refer to themselves, meaning “people” in their languages). With wars and invasions happening worldwide, and divisions and conflicts increasing, what does “Home” mean to each of the three members?
We cordially invite all to the first solo exhibition in five years by 鯰 [Namazu], which embodies the reality of an artist’s life.
鯰 [Namazu] is a team formed in 2018 by Yoshiki Omote, Shoma Fujimura, and Taichi Moriyama. The three, who also work individually as artists, have been based in Toride City, Ibaraki Prefecture. They focus on performance and interactive elements inspired by their everyday life and routines, especially their daily drinking sessions. For example, in their solo exhibition, “Real-Life Escape Room,” they created a two-story escape game inside a white cube gallery space, flipping the usual relationship between “seeing and being seen” by combining artwork viewing with solving riddles, which drew significant attention.
Many art collectives have defined roles for each member, but 鯰 [Namazu] has not created such a social structure. They also seek to reexamine the relationship between the artist and the viewer by intentionally including miscommunication and occasional clashes that happen during the creation of their works.
In this exhibition, their first solo show in five years, they will mainly showcase new video works, including a documentary road movie “Takoyaki in the Center of the World,” shot in Australia, along with a local series touring Nishitokyo City, the hometown of Fujimura and Moriyama, and Takatsuki City, Omote's hometown. For this project, the three members of 鯰 [Namazu] traveled to Australia to visit Uluru (Ayers Rock), the world's second-largest monolith. Uluru is considered sacred by the indigenous people, and in the 1980s, the Australian government returned ownership of the land to its original owners, the Anangu (a term used by several Aboriginal Australian groups in the Western Desert region to refer to themselves, meaning “people” in their languages). With wars and invasions happening worldwide, and divisions and conflicts increasing, what does “Home” mean to each of the three members?
We cordially invite all to the first solo exhibition in five years by 鯰 [Namazu], which embodies the reality of an artist’s life.
Schedule | Aug 2 (Sat) 2025-Sep 13 (Sat) 2025 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Aug 2 (Sat) 2025 17:00 - 18:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.kanakawanishi.com/exhibition-056-namazu-home | ||||
| Venue | Kana Kawanishi Gallery http://www.kanakawanishi.com/ | ||||
| Location | 1F 4-7-6 Shirakawa, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0021 | ||||
| Access | 9 minute walk from exit B2 at Kiyosumi Shirakawa Station on the Hanzomon line. 9 minute walk from exit A4 at Kikukawa Station on the Toei Shinjuku line. 14 minute walk from exit A3 at Kiyosumi Shirakawa Station on the Toei Oedo line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5843-9128 | ||||
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