EXhiBition
GALLERIES
Left: ISAJI YUGO, Pen, 2025. Plastic pen, acrylic case on a wood base, 21 x 7.5 x 7.5 cm. © Isaji Yugo, courtesy Kana Kawanishi Gallery. Center: RYOTA KIKUCHI, Ride on Time, 2014. Archival pigment print, 109.1 x 72.8 cm. © Ryota Kikuchi, courtesy Kana Kawanishi Gallery. Right: PATRIK SÖDERLUND, A Third of Life, 2025. Site-specific installation, dimensions variable. © Patrik Söderlund, courtesy Kana Kawanishi Gallery.
Photo by Nobutada Omote
EVERYDAY, WITH A DELAY
“Everyday, With a Delay” is a group exhibition featuring works by Isaji Yugo, Ryota Kikuchi, and Patrik Söderlund. Yugo makes sculptures that transform ordinary objects, such as ballpoint pens, plastic bottles, and box cutter blades, into what he calls “purely homemade street art.” Kikuchi is known for photographic works that revisualize the boundaries of familiar urban landscapes by “hooking” his body onto streetlights, signs, and monuments, drawing on his physicality as a free climber. Söderlund—whose work as part of the artist duo IC-98 (with Visa Suonpää) addresses the environmental crisis and the rhythms of time and nature—investigates the spaces that exist between sleep and wakefulness, as in his collective sleep and dream ritual project A Third of Life (2025–). Encompassing sculpture, photography, and installation, the practices of these three artists allow viewers to experience the moment when everyday life emerges, with a slight delay, as a different kind of world.
KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY
Kana Kawanishi Gallery was founded in 2015 to showcase Japanese and international artists who explore aspects of society through visual media. The gallery is located in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, a five-minute walk from the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Its satellite space, Kana Kawanishi Photography, which focuses on contemporary photography, opened in 2018 in Nishi-Azabu, near the Mori Art Museum. Both spaces were designed by Yuko Nagayama & Associates.
Kana Kawanishi Gallery has placed works by its artists in major public collections, including the British Museum, London; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; and the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. The gallery also regularly participates in international art fairs, including NADA New York, photo basel, Photo London, and Unseen in Amsterdam. Kana Kawanishi Gallery was named a “power player” of the Tokyo art scene by Artnet News in 2022 and has previously been featured in stories in Artsy, the Asahi Shimbun, Bijutsu Techo, Blouin Artinfo, The Guardian, Forbes, Libération, and Monocle.