KENJI IDE /

YOHEI IMAMURA /

KAZUKI MATSUSHITA /

KATE NEWBY /

YUTAKA NOZAWA /

AYAKO OHNO /

EMI OTAGURO /

MICHI SUWA /

DAICHI TAKAGI /

MASANORI TOMITA /

EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG

Elsewhen, Elsewhere
July 12 - August 29, 2025, 11am-6pm
closed on weekends and public holidays

Opening Reception: July 12, 3-6pm

Venue: Art Intelligence Global
Suite A, 1st Floor TS Tower, 43 Heung Yip Rd
Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
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Elsewhen, Elsewhere

“What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question... The great revelation had never come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”

— Excerpt from “To The Lighthouse” (Virginia Woolf, 1927)

Elsewhen, Elsewhere - the words themselves dissolve like mist, hinting at a dislocation in both time and place. The title suggests a realm beyond charted knowledge; a moment folded into the creases of memory. It might evoke the past or anticipate the future - a gesture toward a parallel present, existing just beyond the tangible realm. Within this liminal space, the boundaries of the familiar begin to dissolve. Artworks emerge as quiet emissaries from elsewhen, elsewhere, vehicles which carry half-remembered memories and dreams.

Masanori Tomita's work across a variety of mediums materializes memory as both organic and eerie, representing a metamorphosis of what has been and what might be. Daichi Takagi’s mythical landscapes oscillate between abstraction and figuration, as geometric forms soften into luminous scenes. For Takagi, each stroke is a negotiation between roots and reinvention, serving as a quiet testament to the landscapes we carry within.

Michi Suwa’s intimately scaled canvases display a unique visual language formed by a profound reflection on her own body’s interaction with space and time. Through a careful process of distillation and reconstruction, her work seeks to uncover elemental truths through an abstract, quasi-geometric idiom. Kazuki Matsushita explores the psychological potential of abstraction further, unravelling his paintings into glyphs that hover between language and landscape. For both artists, memory is not just preserved but crypted, as if time itself stutters between speech and silence.

Emi Otaguro elevates mundane pocket tissues by applying delicate washes of pastel pigment to their surfaces, creating delicate bands of colour that evoke fantasies and dreamscapes. The exploration also traces the dialogue between life and its surroundings, weaving unseen threads that connect all living beings. Yohei Imamura's silkscreen layering transforms routine into ritual through the everyday act of repetition, crafting a geological record of time's passage. The ordinary and familiar can also be a labyrinth of illusion. Yutaka Nozawa crafts a playful dissonance with painting, photography and time-based media, capturing the viewer between a slippery duality that unfolds in a single moment.

Materials hold the essence of intimate experience for Kenji Ide and Evelyn Taocheng Wang. Ide turns wood, fabric, paint, and metal into poetic relics of personal experience, while Wang explores both traditional Asian and contemporary painting techniques as vehicles which capture the fleeting impressions of both cultural and bodily memory.

A love for natural forces and forms is embodied in the works of Ayako Ohno and Kate Newby. Ohno’s sculptures inhabit a state of subtle contradiction; their weight seems to dissipate, solid forms flatten into silhouettes, and their natural origins transform into metaphysical shapes. Newby infuses her materials with a sense of quiet monumentality, allowing them to dissolve back into nature, where the path of a breeze is fossilized in clay.