Kohei Oda + Yuichi Higashionna Exhibition

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Kohei Oda, Yuichi Higashionna

This exhibition is the first collaboration between Kohei Oda of Hiroshima-based Plexus, which has a store in Daita, Tokyo, and Yuichi Higashionna, who creates works using motifs from everyday objects around him.

The cacti in the plexus are excavated based on Oda's unique sense of value, which is based on listening to the unique stories behind the plants, such as parent trees that have been cut continuously at random or cacti with unique aspects that have been grafted, and as works of art that change over time, or like antiques, have attracted many art collectors, architects, and other creators. Oda's works have attracted many art collectors, architects, and other creators. In this exhibition, Oda's selection of cacti will be presented as one of the elements, interspersed with ceramic works, which Higashionna has attempted for the first time.
Higashionna has long focused on the interior (interior), suggesting the suppression of the exterior that forms our interior.

The light object, Higashionna's representative work presented in this exhibition, provides a light environment for cacti as a lighting fixture updated from fluorescent to LED. Houseplants have become a pervasive interior design element that brings nature into our daily lives, but the cacti living in an awkwardly free manner while dependent on artificial light seems to suggest the concept of the "uncanny" (Sigmund Freud) that lurks in our daily lives, which has been a theme of Higashionna's work.

Schedule

Apr 14 (Fri) 2023-May 20 (Sat) 2023