We are pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Kanji Wakae Domain of Mirror - Downfall＆Turnover at Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku.

Kanji Wakae has been consistently producing works since 1970s which ask you to reconsider the relation between recognition and perception. In Wakae’s works, a transition of different kinds of expressions, such as “photograph”, “sculpture”, “drawing” and “installation”, can be seen. There, at the root of it, is always the question about preconceived notions of the world and he reminds his works’viewers to think what is recognition by the gap from reality.

In this exhibition, Wakae’s latest drawings, photographs as well as installation will be featured. In addition to them, his works from 1970s will be presented. A part of Wakae’s attitude, which attempts to recognize a relationship with the world through the art, will be observed.

The outside world we usually look at with no doubt : is that really just like we are watching now? If I look at the world through a camera, dare to remove any colors and change the point of view, the world gives me a glimpse of another phase. Where there is a question about what to look at and how to look, there is the birth of art. 
- Kanji Wakae, On Annotation of the Works & the Photographic Works, Catalogue of the Exhibition Kanji Wakae, Yokosuka Museum of Art, 2011

Courtesy of Yumiko Chiba Viewing Room