Ein Fluss im Meer - 「海を流れる河」
Shingo Yoshida, Motoi Yamamoto, Nobuko Watabiki

A river that should not flow – and yet it flows: this paradoxical image, coined by the Japanese poet Yoshirō Ishihara, forms the poetic center of this exhibition. It points to a quiet disturbance, a creative tension between the sayable and the unsayable. Ishihara once described poetry as a language that gives expression to silence – or speaks for the sake of silence itself.

The three artistic positions gathered here also circle around the fleeting, the unspoken, the dimension rooted in disappearance. Motoi Yamamoto draws delicate traces of memory with salt – a ritual act of remembrance for his late sister and wife. Nobuko Watabiki translates inner stirrings, gazes, and sensations for which there are no words into vibrant spaces of color. In Shingo Yoshida’s video works, the human being appears powerless and transient in the face of nature.

The exhibition brings together works that listen to silence. They open spaces for what cannot be articulated directly – and find their own poetic language for it. In this way, a quiet, steady current emerges between memory and the present, image and language, the visible and the invisible – one that touches the viewer directly.