Rhythm ーArtist's Book Exhibitionー

Laure Catugier, Szu-Yu Liu, Mikiya Matsuda, Kana Ueda

Aug 8 - Aug 23, 2026

Reading is simultaneously an intellectual activity and a physical process. Whether the material—in our case, the artist's book—is analogous or digital, the act of reading is a choreography of the mind and body. With every singular encounter between text and viewer, it takes shape at its own distinct pace. The third edition of gallery Unfold’s Artist’s Book Exhibition focuses on works that reveal and play with this rhythmic dimension of reading.

Mikiya Matsuda brings a refined focus to language through a long-established conceptual approach. The reader guides, and is simultaneously guided by, the tempo through which words connect to form meaning. Repetition, an essential element of Matsuda’s practice, comes alive uniquely for every individual, expanding a single text into a series of distinct, pulsating events.

Also playing with the spatial arrangement of words to shape meaning, Szuyu Liu offers a tactile approach to rhythm. By using both hands to shuffle printed words, the reader does not merely rearrange semantic messages—they bring to light the personal, synchronised tempo of their own eyes and hands in motion.

Laure Catugier’s work explores cadence through both form and content. Trained in architecture, Catugier treats the book structure itself as an architectural form, reframing the musical qualities of both the building and its representation. In unfolding her works, the viewer actively participates in a process of spatial and rhythmic composition.

Revisiting the essential gestures of traditional reading, Kana Ueda draws attention to the simple act of turning a page. To experience her work is to layer one’s own pace of flipping pages onto her documented movements. Ultimately, the subject of reading becomes the physical act of reading itself.

Bringing these distinct approaches together, the exhibition invites visitors to move beyond passive spectatorship into an active, tactile dialogue. The book transforms from a static object into an open score—to be performed, felt, and inhabited by each reader.

Text｜Chien Lee（gallery Unfold Researcher）
Japanese Editing｜Mu-Wei Huang（gallery Unfold Director）