Seishu Niihira "Ghost Painter"

Gallery Taga 2

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Artists

Seishu Niihira

Seishu Niihira has created paintings by layering motifs, working with “noise,” such as multiple timelines, spatial distortion, and fragmentation, as a key concept. He has also shaped his own reality by blurring binary oppositions like male and female. This exhibition presents “Ghost Paint”, a series that further develops “Phantom Paint”, which the artist began last year. In these works, he moves between the realms of AI and humanity to contemplate the nature of “consciousness,” “the soul,” and “authorship.” We invite you to view his first solo exhibition at GALLERY TAGA 2 in four years.

Ghost Paint: A series that builds upon its predecessor, “Phantom Paint”. The “Phantom Paint” series consists of paintings based on images created with the “GAN” image-generation technology; to produce these source images, the artist fed numerous portraits into the AI and then deliberately interrupted its learning process. In “Ghost Paint”, these incomplete and distorted images are then layered further to create ambiguous forms that are not immediately recognizable.

Schedule

Jun 26 (Thu) 2025-Jul 28 (Mon) 2025