<Artist talk> Natsuyuki Nakanishi × Hideyuki Igarashi, dialogue 「受映膜について」 May 18 [Sat.] 14:00 to 15:30 (no reservation needed) *We invite Mr. Natsuyuki Nakanishi to hold a dialogue with the artist. Hideyuki Igarashi is an artist with a broad vision who uses various media and modes of expression, including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and installation, and also carries out activities engaging with society. Recently he has been developing an analysis of contemporary painting through the collaborative production and exhibition 『遠くの画布、近くの絵』 with Mr. Natsuyuki Nakanishi and the joint research 「像の拡大と拡散の試み」. Through Mr. Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Igarashi analyzing each other, one can glimpse the trajectories of the two artists' production. This can be called a very valuable document in the history of painting. In addition, his twenty-year undertaking using painting as a communication tool with people with developmental disabilities continues to develop, while also influencing the fields of psychoanalysis and brain science. Igarashi's approach to the questions 'What is sight? What is the visual-tactile?' also connects to the problem of 'the distance between Igarashi and the object', and to the 'intersubjective' philosophical problem. And a simple question about the fundamentally human act of 'drawing'. Hideyuki Igarashi, who has searched for answers to various questions. This exhibition shows part of the drawing sessions, over about twenty years and more than 5,000 sheets, between Hideyuki Igarashi and Mr. Masanori Kurachi (a person with multiple disabilities: severe developmental disability and autism), together with a selection, from past works to the latest, of the representative undertakings of Hideyuki Igarashi that Yuichi Mori of MORI YU GALLERY has followed for fifteen years. Igarashi's paintings are not mere 'copies' of photographs; they are paintings very 'close' to the depicted objects themselves, as if one 'could touch' those objects. Not paintings like photographs that have cut out the outside, but paintings in which the viewer is led out into that outside itself, paintings that 'exist together with the painting's objects and subjects', 'enduring' paintings: will you not come to understand this? We also exhibit photographic works that, passing once again through the passage of the loophole that is the pinhole, through which conventional photography has left the objects themselves behind, go back against the light to the objects themselves, as if taking us back to the wilderness of memory. Please be sure to come and see the works of Hideyuki Igarashi.