I am probably not the right voice for these paintings
ISHIGURO Hikaru
When spirit is entrusted to matter it does not merely take on form but begins to breathe as cipher Painting is one such manifestation
Our era prizes the speed of understanding and locks questions away in the name of resolution But my practice refuses, stubbornly, to be contained within that cage
Instead, from silence from the faintest tremor, from delay from the gaps of rupture I keep my distance from thinking that rushes toward answers through asynchronous relation
I am probably not the right voice for these paintings.
ISHIGURO Hikaru, Whispered Conspiracy, 2025, Cotton cloth, art glue, ink, and watercolor pencil on wooden panel, 375 × 315 mm, ©2025 ISHIGURO Hikaru, Courtesy of the Artist and aaploit
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I am probably not the right voice for these paintings
- Dates
- October 3 – October 19, 2025
- Hours
- Friday, Saturday, Sunday 13:00–18:00 Viewings by appointment available on other days
- Venue
- aaploit, Tokyo
Artist
ISHIGURO Hikaru
b. 2002
Ishiguro Hikaru works from a commitment to painting itself, rather than alignment with any particular genre or technique. Organic motifs — butterflies, moths, shells — function as bearers of transience, while suspended faces introduce a temporality on the picture plane severed from experienced time. Grounded in the experience of loss, the work can be read as a work of mourning — reorganizing emotion and opening it toward a shared perceptual space. BFA in Nihonga, Tohoku University of Art and Design, 2024; currently enrolled in the Graduate Program in Art and Culture, Painting Research Area at the same institution (expected 2026). Solo exhibition: I Would Not Be a Good Narrator of These Paintings (aaploit, Tokyo, 2025). Special Prize, 9th Ishimoto Tadashi Nihonga Award (2024), among others. Born in 2002.