In progress - Unfolded

In Tsutsumi's practice, the subject of photography is photography itself.

Tsutsumi illuminates a model space of their own construction and photographs it. The resulting print is then illuminated and photographed again. Built up through this repetition, In progress (2023–) is an ongoing series in which the image is continually renewed through cycles of shooting and printing. With each iteration, new images are generated. At the same time, details that once existed are blown out to white and disappear. Accumulation and erasure occur within the same act. At each exhibition, the light and shadow that arise in the gallery space are photographed together with the works and absorbed into the next stage of production. An exhibition is not a conclusion but the beginning of the next layer.

In Reframing 'In progress' (2024), multiple prints are layered at varying heights within the depth of the frame, causing the boundary between the light and shadow accumulated within the image and the light and shadow falling in reality to blur. In Exposed and Reappear (2025), light is directed from behind onto areas that had been blown out to white during the process of repetition, causing traces that seemed lost to surface once more.

The three-part framed work Shadows and Spaces Reappearing I, II, III (2025) reconstructs the wall of a gallery space. Elements captured from the "shadows" of works in a previous exhibition are developed and then positioned as if embedded back in their original locations, making the areas where works once hung visible as slightly raised margins. Through photographic expression via wall surface and frame, the work continues a line of production that carries forward the continuity of the preceding exhibition.

In Reflections (2026), reflections and superimpositions mediated through acrylic cause the world of the image and the space of reality to intersect, generating a state of perpetual composition and recomposition.

A new work currently in progress focuses on the photographic act of "selecting." As production continues, images multiply; through the repeated processes of selection and unfolding, those not chosen always far outnumber those that are. The artist seeks to express the act of selecting itself within a single image.

This exhibition brings together for the first time works made from 2023 to the present within a single space. Each work is part of an ongoing process, and the space of this exhibition becomes a site of that accumulation.

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