Ryuya Kimura Exhibition
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Ryuya Kimura
NEW is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Ryuya Kimura.
Drawing on approximately 25 years of experience working with textiles, Ryuya Kimura explores the process through which materials transcend their original functions and meanings, transforming into new forms of existence. His practice encompasses a diverse range of expressions, from two-dimensional works using fabric as a support to three-dimensional works that take shape in space. Layering, covering, erasing, cutting, and connecting. These actions in Kimura’s practice are not merely formal techniques, but emerge from an ongoing dialogue between the material and a body shaped by years of working with textiles. Through the repeated process of engaging with materials and responding to their transformations, unexpected occurrences and subtle fluctuations arise beyond the artist’s intentions, allowing new contours to emerge through the accumulation of time.
This exhibition presents two new works from the “FRAGMENT” series, a large-scale work (Size 100) and a smaller work (SM size), in which textiles are cut, connected, and reconstructed to create new relationships. Alongside these, works from the “VESTIGE” series will be exhibited, in which traces of time are preserved within the fibers through repeated acts of layering, covering, and erasing. In “FRAGMENT,” pieces that have lost their former continuity are reconnected, acquiring new contours and relationships. In “VESTIGE,” images emerge and disappear within multiple layers, while what appears to have vanished continues to remain as a trace. Fragmentation and connection, disappearance and persistence. What unites these two series is an approach that seeks to discover new possibilities within the process of transformation itself, rather than directing materials toward a predetermined form. Time and bodily memory embedded in the universal material of textiles, and unknown forms emerging through transformation. We hope this exhibition offers an opportunity to reconsider the materials and forms of existence that shape our everyday lives, and to encounter the possibilities that lie hidden within them.
Drawing on approximately 25 years of experience working with textiles, Ryuya Kimura explores the process through which materials transcend their original functions and meanings, transforming into new forms of existence. His practice encompasses a diverse range of expressions, from two-dimensional works using fabric as a support to three-dimensional works that take shape in space. Layering, covering, erasing, cutting, and connecting. These actions in Kimura’s practice are not merely formal techniques, but emerge from an ongoing dialogue between the material and a body shaped by years of working with textiles. Through the repeated process of engaging with materials and responding to their transformations, unexpected occurrences and subtle fluctuations arise beyond the artist’s intentions, allowing new contours to emerge through the accumulation of time.
This exhibition presents two new works from the “FRAGMENT” series, a large-scale work (Size 100) and a smaller work (SM size), in which textiles are cut, connected, and reconstructed to create new relationships. Alongside these, works from the “VESTIGE” series will be exhibited, in which traces of time are preserved within the fibers through repeated acts of layering, covering, and erasing. In “FRAGMENT,” pieces that have lost their former continuity are reconnected, acquiring new contours and relationships. In “VESTIGE,” images emerge and disappear within multiple layers, while what appears to have vanished continues to remain as a trace. Fragmentation and connection, disappearance and persistence. What unites these two series is an approach that seeks to discover new possibilities within the process of transformation itself, rather than directing materials toward a predetermined form. Time and bodily memory embedded in the universal material of textiles, and unknown forms emerging through transformation. We hope this exhibition offers an opportunity to reconsider the materials and forms of existence that shape our everyday lives, and to encounter the possibilities that lie hidden within them.
Schedule | Nov 20 (Fri) 2026-Dec 4 (Fri) 2026 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Nov 20 (Fri) 2026 18:00 - 21:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://newwwauction.com/en/exhibitions/view/Ryuya_Kimura | ||||
| Venue | New Auction https://newwwauction.com/en/ | ||||
| Address | B1F, 5-9-15 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001 | ||||
| Access | 4 minute walk from exit 7 at Meiji-jingumae Station on the Fukutoshin and Chiyoda lines. 4 minute walk from Omotesando Station on the Hanzomon, Ginza and Chiyoda lines. 7 minute walk from the East exit of Harajuku Station on the JR Yamanote line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6419-7577 |
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