Miyaru ; 3rd Person
UEMATSU Mizuki, OKOSHI Madoka
Mizuki Uematsu intervenes in matter. While form and function remain intact, the interior transforms. The traces of that transformation become the work.
Madoka Okoshi delegates her gaze. She views the space where she once stood through a perspective that is no longer her own. What she entrusted has already become something else.
Both are acts of releasing something from one's own body and placing it in the care of another. What is entrusted transforms in the process. The same, yet not the same.
"Miyaru" belongs to Uematsu's vocabulary — to gaze intently, to watch over.
"3rd Person" belongs to Okoshi's vocabulary — a viewpoint that observes the self from the outside.
In this title, however, the two artists have exchanged their words. Miyaru illuminates Okoshi's practice, and 3rd Person illuminates Uematsu's stance. The title itself enacts the very gesture of releasing and entrusting.
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Miyaru ; 3rd Person
- Dates
- May 8 – May 24, 2026
- Hours
- Friday, Saturday, Sunday 13:00–18:00 Viewings by appointment available on other days
- Venue
- aaploit, Tokyo
Artists
UEMATSU Mizuki
b. 1995
Uematsu Mizuki pursues what repetitive action generates between material and body. Working with iron and paper across an almost unreasonable duration—striking, cutting, returning to the same gesture—she finds that action gradually comes into sync with her own breathing. The traces left on the work are not a record of completion but evidence of that synchronization having passed through. Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1995. PhD in Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.
OKOSHI Madoka
b. 1997
Oikoshi Madoka uses the LiDAR sensor built into the smartphone to capture people and cityscapes as point-cloud data, reconstructing them within AR space. Measurement generates image; image becomes space. Working across this sequence, she sustains an inquiry into where seeing ends and measuring begins. Born in Akita Prefecture in 1997. BFA, Akita University of Art, 2020. MFA, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), 2023. Currently a doctoral candidate at Nagoya University, Graduate School of Informatics.