Transparent Room: The Distant Now That Cannot Be Grasped

To stop, one must touch
Life swept away by life
Colors find meaning in a closed room
Seeing the contours of a floating room

Hasegawa, who majored in textiles during his student days and expressed himself with fabric materials, uses the points of departure found in everyday encounters as a basis to depict a world unraveled from his own interests through painting. Hasegawa's perspective of wanting to "gaze at the nonchalant aspects of the world" carefully captures a moment in our lives that seems to be swept away by the diverse waves we live in. The everyday landscapes woven through the eyes of the artist can be said to be guided vaguely onto the screen after a valuable process.

Focusing on the theme of rooms, influenced by Rothko, Jiaming is bringing a sensory interpretation onto the canvas and exploring non-existent or ambiguous elements in the paintings. As if searching for the unclear connections among people in contemporary society, the colors and forms appearing on the screen with ambiguous measures sometimes evoke melancholy or complex emotions. Depicted as motifs are the faces, expressions, bodies, and attitudes of people hidden in everyday scenery. While using the language of painting eloquently, the artwork describes the abstract activities of people.

Please take this opportunity to explore the worlds of these two artists through their paintings.

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Hiroko Hasegawa

Born in 1993 in Mie Prefecture.
Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Crafts in 2018.
Completed the Master's Program in the Department of Crafts, Dyeing and Weaving field, at Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts in 2021.

Solo Exhibition:
2023 "Hiroko Hasegawa exhibition" at Gallery Blue 3143/Tokyo.

Group Exhibitions:
2015 "Hibi no Etsetera" at Gallery Shioka/Tokyo.
2017 "MEI-TEN" at Ikebukuro Parco Museum/Tokyo.
2018 "KIRE-KIRE-TEN" at Ikebukuro Parco Museum/Tokyo.
2018 "Tsunagaru Ito Hirogaru Nuno" at Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery@KCUA/Kyoto.
2019 "Short Bacance" at Iriya Gallery/Tokyo.

POP UP:
2022 "Spiral Xmas Market 2022" at Spiral Garden/Tokyo.

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Jiaming Wang

2023, graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture, at Nihon University.

Career Highlights:

October 2021: "Nihon University Autumn Exhibition," Group Exhibition at Shinjuku Emugallery.
December 2021: "The 46th Do-Nichi Exhibition 2021" at the National Art Center.
September 2022: Selected for the "The 57th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition" at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery.
October 2022: "Gallery Bi no Sha Student Selection Exhibition 2022" at Bi no Sha Gallery, received Excellence Award.
November 2022: Two-person exhibition "Empty Room" & "Before Nightfall."
December 2022: Group exhibition "Fragments of the Past" at Kumagai Morikazu Art Museum Gallery.
March 2023: Participated in the 46th Tokyo Go-Bijutsu Daigaku Rengo Sotsugyo-Shuuryo Seisaku Exhibition at the National Art Center.
July 2023: Selected for the World Painting Grand Prix Exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
August 2023: Solo exhibition "Empty Room" at Bi no Sha Gallery.
In 2022, received a scholarship as part of the Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program.