[ICHION CONTEMPORARY] Miyuki Yokomizo Solo Exhibition 'Landscape: Memories of Water, Intersecting Gazes' Opens June 30

At the contemporary art gallery 'ICHION CONTEMPORARY' (Higashi-Umeda, Osaka), a solo exhibition by Miyuki Yokomizo titled 'Landscape: Memories of Water, Intersecting Gazes' will be held from Tuesday, June 30, to Saturday, August 1, 2026. Additionally, a preview event featuring a live creation session and reception by Miyuki Yokomizo is scheduled for Saturday, June 27.

Operated by Art Distribution Support LLC (Location: Nozakicho, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture; Representative Partner: Kazune Kami), the contemporary art gallery 'ICHION CONTEMPORARY' will present Miyuki Yokomizo's solo exhibition 'Landscape: Memories of Water, Intersecting Gazes' from June 30 (Tue) to August 1 (Sat), 2026.

Since the 1990s, Miyuki Yokomizo has exhibited minimalist installations both domestically and internationally, utilizing familiar artificial materials like plastic, with time, space, and light as crucial elements. In recent years, she has been developing attempts to evoke her inner landscapes by combining installations with canvas-based two-dimensional works in relation to the exhibition space.

In her two-dimensional works, which Yokomizo positions as 'paintings as sculpture,' she does not use a paintbrush. Instead, she creates linear trajectories on the canvas by snapping threads coated with oil paint. These lines, embodying contingencies such as paint splatters, swellings, fadings, and deviations, emerge not merely as images on a plane, but as physical substances existing in real space and as traces of physical action.

When Yokomizo visited ICHION CONTEMPORARY, she overlaid the memories of Osaka as a 'city of water' and the vestiges of old row houses onto the extremely narrow architecture sandwiched between buildings, despite being in the center of Osaka. In a space where natural light entering each floor stagnates, lingers, and constantly changes its expression, Yokomizo goes back and forth between the realms of the 'visible' and the 'invisible,' creating fleeting scenes where space, light, lines, and memories intersect.

Please take this opportunity to view Miyuki Yokomizo's new practices at this exhibition.

A landscape is not merely scenery or a view; it encompasses various perspectives, including the situations and environments that make up a space, and even the stories that the place holds. It is not about depicting a specific landscape or a particular place, but rather the very thought process of gathering fragments of the world and questioning how to interpret and design them. It is a subtle attempt, much like connecting lines to stars scattered in the night sky to weave them anew into constellations.

An extremely narrow space sandwiched between buildings in the heart of Osaka. The vestiges of an old row house suddenly overlapped there. Within the architecture stretching vertically, the natural light shining into each floor stagnates and lingers, constantly changing its expression, showing a serene scene. The stairs leading to the light seem to head towards the sky alongside the modern landscape of high-rise buildings, while simultaneously descending into the deep water memories of the city once known as the city of water.

Things that are uncertain, fragile, faint, yet certainly present.
Things that are elusive, hard to grasp, easily lost sight of, and difficult to notice.
I am strongly drawn to such things.

Going back and forth in that realm of the 'visible' and 'invisible,' each work becomes autonomous while simultaneously connecting loosely with one another, building new relationships with the viewer. It might be something like a gaze trying to decipher what lies beyond an unseen horizon.

Vision is highly uncertain and ambiguous.
However, I believe that the very uncertainty of 'seeing' is the essence of expression's potential.
For a fleeting scene that can only manifest right there.
Miyuki Yokomizo

[Exhibition Overview]
Title: Landscape: Memories of Water, Intersecting Gazes
Venue: ICHION CONTEMPORARY
9-7 Nozakicho, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, 530-0055
Dates: June 30 (Tue) - August 1 (Sat), 2026
Hours: 11:00 - 18:00 *Last admission 17:30
Closed: Sundays, Mondays, and National Holidays
Admission: Free

[Preview Event]
As a preview event for this exhibition, we will welcome the artist Miyuki Yokomizo on Saturday, June 27, and hold a reception on the 5th-floor terrace of ICHION CONTEMPORARY.
Additionally, a public live creation session by Yokomizo is scheduled to take place at the same venue from 14:00 on the same day.

Miyuki Yokomizo
Born in Tokyo. Graduated from the Department of Sculpture, Tama Art University. Researcher under the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists provided by the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
Since the 1990s, she has presented minimalist installations domestically and internationally, focusing on time, space, and light, using everyday artificial materials like plastic. Recently, she has been attempting to create new landscapes by combining canvas works, which replace installations onto flat surfaces, with installations.

Major exhibitions include 'criterium 37' at Art Tower Mito (1998), 'The Plastic Age' at The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama (2000), 'Leaning Cabin' at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2002), 'Stolen Nature' at Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art (2003), 'Circuit for the Future: New Generation of Japanese Artists' by Japan Foundation (2004-19), 'Landscape - Beyond the Soft Horizon' at POLA Museum Annex (2021), and 'ABSTRACTION: The Awakening and Development of Abstract Painting - From Cezanne, Fauvism, and Cubism to the Present' at Artizon Museum (2023).

[Major Solo Exhibitions]
2025
'landscape — Sukuimusubikiku' Chiso Gallery gallery2 (Kyoto)
'Timeless Dialogue — Miyuki Yokomizo+Oriental Art' Otsuka Fine Art (Tokyo)
2023
'invisibility' Ginza Tsutaya Books (Tokyo)
'still water' GALLERY Rin (Tokyo)
'Shadow' Gallery Lee & Bae (Busan, South Korea)
2022
'Visible / Invisible' Double Square Gallery (Taipei, Taiwan)
'7lines - Yokomizo Miyuki' 77gallery (Tokyo)
'Miyuki Yokomizo' Morioka Shoten (Tokyo)
2021
'Landscape - Beyond the Soft Horizon' POLA Museum Annex (Tokyo)
'Landscape - Accumulation of Light' MARUEIDO JAPAN (Tokyo)
'Yokomizo Miyuki - Canvas works' GALLERY Rin (Tokyo)
'Yokomizo Miyuki' B. B. ART (Tainan, Taiwan)
2020
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