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AISHO Hong Kong is honoured to announce Japanese artist Wataru Ozu’s first solo exhibition Between Stillness in Hong Kong. The show is on view from 5 September to 3 October, 2025.
In this solo exhibition, while reconsidering “Ma（間）” – one of the essential elements in Japanese art – Ozu have painted vanitas motifs known in Western art, such as clocks, fruits, flowers, lobsters, and crabs. By directing consciousness toward the empty spaces and silence that emerge between these elements, the artist contemplates the spaces between objects, between different cultures, and between paintings and viewers.
In these works, while using Western still life painting as a foundation, Ozu symbolize time and ephemerality through vanitas motifs. Simultaneously, through the perspective of “Ma,” empty spaces and silence emerge between the motifs, creating spaces where different cultural values overlap. By inserting Eastern spatial sensibilities into Western formal structures, the artist aimed to shift both frameworks and pursue new possibilities in pictorial expression.
