Satoshi Hori "Outside the Yawn"
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Satoshi Hori
Bambinart Gallery is pleased to present *Outside the Yawn*, a solo exhibition by Satoshi Hori.
People reflected in train windows, landscapes rushing past in an instant. Images overlap, emerge, and disappear, shifting into the next scene even as we try to retain what we have just seen in our memory. Through these everyday visual experiences, Hori has continued to explore how we see the world and how much of what lies before our eyes we are actually able to grasp.
In his previous exhibition statements, Hori has explored a range of themes: disappearing landscapes and the loss of memory (*Runtime Friends*, 2019); the collision between the observing subject and the world being observed (*Masked Gazer*, 2020); imagining what lies beyond the visible (*Hairy Fairy*, 2021); doubts about the substance and temporality of what appears before our eyes (*Past Rainbow*, 2022); questioning perception itself (*Sweet Eyes*, 2023); and reflections on the connections between unseen things and the nature of time (*Magic Time, Sweet Home*, 2024). Running consistently through these explorations is a reluctance to define the world through the limits of one’s own perception, alongside an imagination directed toward realms beyond its reach.
In the works presented in this exhibition, forms suggestive of human faces and animals, together with symbolic and geometric shapes, overlap across the picture surface in vivid colors, coexisting as they encroach upon one another’s contours. Rather than inviting us simply to identify individual images and decipher their meanings, the paintings bring to the fore the relationships between forms and colors themselves—relationships that cannot be fully grasped through such acts of interpretation.
Between the desire to see the world and the impossibility of fully apprehending it, how does painting come into being? Building upon Hori’s ongoing investigations, this exhibition once again poses questions about the relationship between seeing and painting.
People reflected in train windows, landscapes rushing past in an instant. Images overlap, emerge, and disappear, shifting into the next scene even as we try to retain what we have just seen in our memory. Through these everyday visual experiences, Hori has continued to explore how we see the world and how much of what lies before our eyes we are actually able to grasp.
In his previous exhibition statements, Hori has explored a range of themes: disappearing landscapes and the loss of memory (*Runtime Friends*, 2019); the collision between the observing subject and the world being observed (*Masked Gazer*, 2020); imagining what lies beyond the visible (*Hairy Fairy*, 2021); doubts about the substance and temporality of what appears before our eyes (*Past Rainbow*, 2022); questioning perception itself (*Sweet Eyes*, 2023); and reflections on the connections between unseen things and the nature of time (*Magic Time, Sweet Home*, 2024). Running consistently through these explorations is a reluctance to define the world through the limits of one’s own perception, alongside an imagination directed toward realms beyond its reach.
In the works presented in this exhibition, forms suggestive of human faces and animals, together with symbolic and geometric shapes, overlap across the picture surface in vivid colors, coexisting as they encroach upon one another’s contours. Rather than inviting us simply to identify individual images and decipher their meanings, the paintings bring to the fore the relationships between forms and colors themselves—relationships that cannot be fully grasped through such acts of interpretation.
Between the desire to see the world and the impossibility of fully apprehending it, how does painting come into being? Building upon Hori’s ongoing investigations, this exhibition once again poses questions about the relationship between seeing and painting.
Schedule | Nov 7 (Sat) 2026-Nov 28 (Sat) 2026 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.bambinart.jp/exhibitions/satoshi-hori-20261107/ | ||||
| Venue | Bambinart Gallery http://www.bambinart.jp/en/ | ||||
| Address | 2F KI Bldg., 1-7-10 Higashikanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0031 | ||||
| Access | 6 minute walk from exit 2 at Bakurocho Station on the JR Sobu line, 6 minute walk from exit A4 at Iwamotocho Station on the Toei Shinjuku line, 7 minute walk from exit A1 at Bakuro-yokoyama Station on the Toei Shinjuku line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6240-1973 |
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