untitled #2026-1

Artwork price: ¥66,000 (tax included)
Size: H73 x W110 x D3 cm

Material: canvas, acrylic, yarn

Production year: 2026

Edition: one-of-a-kind

Framing: none

Work certificate: ◯

Sign: ◯

Sales period: 2026/4/19 (Sun) until 23:00 [first-come-first-served basis]

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This exhibition “Latent Perception” is a two-person exhibition that rearranges the efforts of Naruyama Ai and Endo Hitomi in painting under the question “How do statues stand up and how can they be perceived without any uncertainty?” The “latent perception” handled here does not simply indicate something invisible or an unfinished state, but rather indicates the very state of perception in which an image is generated while gaze, memory, and senses intersect, and is opened up in that process.

Naruyama Ai creates works starting from “images” of immaterial, undefined memories that remain in the depths of consciousness after viewing a large number of images through SNS and digital media. What Naruyama tries to keep in his paintings is not a clear image, but rather a state where his gaze continues to wander in an attempt to focus. An “unarranged screen” composed of paint with a strong sense of substance causes the viewer's perception to stay on the screen, causing a movement to continue searching for images. The reason why signs of people and animals appear on a screen that seems abstract at first glance is not because the work presents them, but because the viewer's own perception attempts to generate meaning.

Meanwhile, while using the form of landscape painting as a foothold, Hitomi Endo has been brushing not only to recreate the outside world, but also to inner landscapes such as dreams and memories. Time accumulation and emotional fluctuations overlap on a screen composed of delicate colors and multi-layered layers, and the image continues to fluctuate constantly without converging into a single point of view or time. The noise and dynamics seen in recent works create a feeling as if multiple space-time coexist within a static landscape, drawing viewers deep into the screen.

What is important in this exhibition is not to organize the two by formal divisions such as abstract/figurative. Whereas Naruyama keeps the ambiguity of internal memory on a flat surface, Endo depicts the process by which images acquire depth within perception by layering layers of time and emotion. What they both have in common is the perception that a rich visual experience dwells in the state itself where perception continues to fluctuate and move rather than the moment the image is clearly fixed.

In this exhibition, viewers are positioned not as subjects who unequivocally understand the work, but as entities that participate in the generation of perception through their own memories and senses. The experience of going back and forth between the works of Ai Naruyama and Hitomi Endo will once again reveal the inherent temporality, uncertainty, and active nature of “seeing.” This exhibition is an attempt to quietly illuminate how we see and experience images by surrendering ourselves to the latent sensory movement itself that rises through painting.

Signed on the back of the work

This work will be exhibited at the Duo Exhibition “Latent Perception” , which will be held from 2026/2/14 (Sat) to 3/15 (Sun) at GALLERY ROOM A, a commercial gallery in Asakusa.

Dates
February 14, 2026 (Sat) – March 15, 2026 (Sun)

Venue
GALLERY ROOM・A

Address

2-16-5 Honjo, Sumida-ku, Tokyo KAIKA TOKYO by THE SHARE HOTELS 1F STORAGE 1

Tel

without

Hours
08:00-23:00

Closed
every day during the exhibition

Admission
free

Access

8 minutes on foot from Asakusa Station on the Toei Asakusa Line

9 minutes on foot from Honjo-Azumabashi Station

9 minutes on foot from Kuramae Station on the Toei Oedo Line

Venue URL

https://www.thesharehotels.com/kaika/

Exhibition Page URL

https://artsticker.app/en/events/112928