Keiji Uematsu consistently produces works of unconscious and unseen things such as gravity, attraction and magnetic field which visualize and make viewers feel them. Through the universal law of invisibility, Uematsu tried to reveal moreover the structure, existence and relationship in the world. In his previous solo show in the gallery, Uematsu reconstructed the installation of “Cutting”, a body of installation which Uematsu continued to produce intensively for 10 years from 1971, together with the photo works of the balanced relationship between Uematsu and existing objects presented in the ‘Cutting’. Following the last one, this coming show focuses on the new works which link more recent years to today.

This exhibition features the installation of “Invisible Force”, following “Floating Form” which started production from 1989 and “Touch of Spiral” (1990), and is confronting again Uematsu’s ever continued question, “what is the invisible?”. The installation, in which a stone and a copper-made spindle/cylinder keep balance with a fulcrum set in the ceiling, evoke our interest of the “invisible force” between matter and matter, matter and architecture, or tension and balance. At the same time, a drawing ‘Continuing Space-Axis’ is featured on the whole wall, which is a diagonal stroke drawn strongly and intermittently with charcoal. This work completes the exhibition space. The drawing by the big stroke performed continuously and repeatedly could mean the most physical action for Uematsu. 

While the sculpture of “Invisible Force” shows dynamically the invisible energy going vertically, the drawing visualizes the serene and everlasting energy toward horizontality as if the ‘axis’ of rotation of the earth. 

“What I want to do is to make visible existence, visible connections and visible relations appear more clearly. And to cause non-visible existence, non-visible connections and non-visible relations to appear. And to cause visible existence, visible connections and visible relations not to appear.” (Keiji Uematsu, 1972)

Uematsu continues presenting “invisible force”, which forms the world most simply and universally, yet cannot be conscious in our daily visual experience.