This presentation brings together East Asian women artists whose practices unfold within the tension between immediate sensation and the distance from which it is perceived.

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 Different times and spaces, sensations and perspectives, do not converge into a single direction. Each work exists with its own distance and density, forming multiple sensory coordinates within a shared space.

 

 Arisa Nakabayashi (Japanese b.1992) explores human perception and modes of existence through plants and landscapes. While capturing subtle traces of life and the rhythms hidden within forests, she simultaneously presents a gaze that views them as a larger landscape. Her work quietly reveals the distance between nature and humanity, interiority and exteriority.

 

 Namu Choi (Korean b.1978) amplifies primal vitality and tension through vivid color and rich materiality. Emotions and bodily sensations are intensified within the pictorial space and directly engage the viewer’s senses. Her paintings reconstruct the distance between impulse and order, body and space.

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 Sayaka Toda (Japanese b.1988) depicts a world in which beauty exists alongside ugliness, often through the forms of young girls and animals. This presentation includes works from her university-era series Where Beauty Resides alongside new paintings that extend and reconnect with those earlier images through her current practice. Beauty and ugliness, vulnerability and strength, masculinity and femininity coexist within the same being as dual and ambiguous states. This body of work offers a nuanced reflection on questions of gender in contemporary Japanese society and has been collected by the Takahashi Collection.

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 Sensation and distance do not oppose one another; they coexist in a state of tension. A Point of Many Distances proposes this condition not as a conclusion, but as a space where different sensations and temporalities overlap and remain in dialogue.

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 ※ A Point of Many Distances takes as one of its points of departure Jorge Luis Borges’s short story “The Aleph” (1945). In Borges’s story, the Aleph is a single point in space in which all places and times, and multiple perspectives, coexist simultaneously without disappearing or merging into one another. Drawing on this idea, the exhibition explores a condition in which different sensations and temporalities, perspectives and distances, coexist within a single space.​

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■𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 

・Duration｜October 2 - October 4 2026

・Venue｜MARINE MESSE FUKUOKA Hall B

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   VIP View

   Thursday October 1st 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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   Public View Friday October 2nd 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
    Saturday October 3rd 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
    Sunday October 4th 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

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・Inquiry｜infoalphacontemporary@gmail.com

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