TATSURO KISHIMOTO, Tokyo
Mika Kasai, Maoya Kishi, Hideyo Ohtsuki
The three-artist presentation explores indeterminacy as a productive condition in contemporary art. Each practice engages a different threshold—between image and meaning, artwork and material, process and completion. Rather than offering resolved forms or fixed interpretations, the presentation focuses on moments of suspension, where recognition, meaning, and completion remain unsettled. In doing so, it positions art not as expression, but as a site where judgment is held in abeyance.
Mika Kasai works from an elevated, oblique vantage point, observing the overall condition of things from a distance. Rather than depicting specific figures, narratives, or ideological claims, she reconstructs the spaces and compositional structures surrounding phenomena on a flatsurface, creating images whose meanings never settle into a single interpretation.
Maoya Kishi interrogates the threshold between artwork and material. Using commonplace construction materials with minimal intervention, he presents forms that resist classification, creating situations in which viewers hesitate between art and material. For Kishi, art emerges at the moment recognition is interrupted.
Hideyo Ohtsuki treats masking tape—the tool used to produce hard edges—as his motif. By meticulously painting what is normally discarded, he preserves the process within the work, rendering completion itself ambiguous.
