Inspiring Perspectives on Tea Through the Senses
2025.10.24 ~ 2026.2.8
Sayaka Toda, Bloom in Hand (2025), Materials: oil on canvas, Dimensions: H84 × W53 × D2 cm
The exhibition is directed by Sayaka Toda, who inaugurated the gallery’s very first program, and brings together four artists she has invited to participate. Through dialogue with the implements, spaces, and arrangements of tea, the artists engage with the practice across all five senses. While rooted in inherited traditions, their works evoke fresh awareness and poetic resonance within the cultural and historical life of tea.
Extending beyond the visual, the exhibition evokes texture and temperature, aroma, spatial atmosphere, and sound. In dialogue with diverse materials—wood, stone, ceramics, glass, and resin—their expressions resonate with the body, intertwining with memory and emotion to allow each viewer to discover their own sense of tea in its many aspects and depths.
Through the convergence of tradition and contemporary expression, we invite you to awaken your senses and experience the essence of beauty as it unfolds in everyday life.
Top: San Honma, Garden (2025)
Materials: glass cup, washi paper, paper, ceramic clay, glass, hakogusa, pastel
Dimensions: W162 × D130 × H45 cm
Bottom left: Yoshimi Ozaki, A Mother Swallows a Mother (2022)
Materials: stone, wood
Dimensions: W180 × D60 × H40 cm
Bottom right: Taiga Sasaki, Landscape — Origin — (2025)
Materials: resin (including urethane coating), wood
Dimensions: H110 × W78 × D9 cm
Biography
Sayaka Toda (b. 1988, Saitama, Japan) explores the dualities of beauty and ugliness, as well as gender, through depictions of plants, flowers, and the female form. Working across painting, photography, video, and installation, she reconsiders overlooked or symbolically codified subjects to reveal their layered essence.
Her solo exhibitions include Blooms of Silence (Yokohama Museum of Art, 2025), Voice of Silence (Kyoto Museum of Photography, 2025), and Lying in the Land of Overgrown Weeds (Tokyo, 2023). She has also participated in group shows such as Imago Mundi: Luciano Benetton Collection (Venice, 2013), Takahashi Collection: Faces and Abstraction (Yamanashi, 2018), and the Manpuku-ji Artist-in-Residence Exhibition (Kyoto, 2023).
Her distinctions include KYOBASHI ART WALL (2021), the Kazue Kobata Prize at Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi (2010), and the Shell Art Award (2010). She currently lives and works in Japan.
Biography
Sun Homma (b. 1998, Tokyo) works primarily in ceramics while also engaging with casting and glass. Informed by her interest in astronomy and astrology, her practice seeks to preserve fragile, impermanent, or intangible phenomena— such as memory and personal reflection—by rendering them as enduring forms.
She has held solo exhibitions including Rain Falling on Neptune (JINEN GALLERY, Tokyo, 2024) and Fence and Star (Tokyo, 2023), and participated in group shows such as THE HEADLINERS 2025 (Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum) and GOLDILOCKS ZONE (EUKARYOTE, Tokyo, 2025). She has received the Salon du Printemps Award (2025), the CHANGTING GALLERY Award (2022), and the Hirayama Ikuo Award (2021).
Biography
Yoshimi Ozaki (b. 1996, Aichi, Japan) crystallizes the intangible beauty embedded in custom, folklore, and vernacular beliefs into performances mediated by her own body and into sculptures carved from stone and wood. By lifting symbols latent in ritual implements and sites, she creates spaces where the fantastic and the real arise as two autonomous planes. Her recent projects include the solo exhibition Form of Passage (YAB-YUM, Tokyo, 2024) and performances such as meme (Ōmori Sports Center, Tokyo, 2025) and legato/staccato (YAB-YUM, Tokyo, 2024). Earlier works include the film Literal but poetic (2019) and the stage production WHO ARRIVED (2018).
Biography
Taiga Sasaki (b. 1993, Yamanashi, Japan) is deeply engaged with the relationship between sacred space and sculpture, working across diverse materials including clay, plastic, fabric, and 3D computer graphics. His practice considers how form and material generate sites of reflection and transformation. He has held solo exhibitions such as Ah, Aware (INTA-NET KYOTO, Kyoto, 2025), Scape (To, Tokyo, 2024), and Container of Image (Gallery Kart, Tokyo, 2018). His group projects include Sono Aida Nihonbashi vol.2 (Tokyo, 2025), RE:birth 2024 (Nagano, 2024), and BankART: Art Goods / Art Books (Kanagawa, 2021).