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Chen Yi-Wen、Kosuke Ikeda、Koa Pham
Jun 22 - Jul 7, 2024
gallery Unfold is pleased to present “state of matter,” featuring three artists – Chen Yi-Wen, Kosuke Ikeda, Koa Pham – across multiple disciplines. This exhibition will be held in collaboration with monads contemporary (Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto). Under the same title, each shows a different composition of works by the three participating artists.
The matter is seen as materials, mediums, objects, or forms, each taking on a different form in the process of production and interpretation of the work. In this exhibition, sculptural practices by Chen Yi-Wen, two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and installation works by Kosuke Ikeda, and drawings by Koa Pham, will explore the possibility of matter transforming itself with people’s changing situations and emotions.
Chen Yi-Wen has been making sculptures through the act of picking up and transforming the way we relate to and perceive materials, with an eye to the individuality of the materials and the dialogue between them. In this exhibition, book covers she picked up at a residency in St Petersburg are transformed into bookshelves, encouraging the viewer's involvement and developing a dialogue between objects, people and space.
Kosuke Ikeda has been developing works that question the nature of the existence of things themselves, focusing on energy and material change. In the venue, he introduces a space where solid and fluid, figure and ground, three-dimensional and two-dimensional intersect, centering on his recent paintings with a motif of minerals.
Koa Pham has been expressing the process of change in the relationship between people and objects in space as an artwork. This time, with paintings works created through dissolving colorful bath bombs, he attempts to express the ambivalence of a political system represented as a paradise.
When people interact with matters in a certain situation or emotion, how can the matter exist in its state at any given time? Please join us for a moment of transformation that emerges from the interfering surfaces of matter and perception.