Exhibition Title

Between Presence and Concealment

Exhibition Period

June 26 – July 3, 2025

Curatorial Concept

What we see is never the whole.

Between body and consciousness, between emotion and expression, there always exists a subtle, almost imperceptible interface—one that both conceals and reveals; both protects and exposes.

Between Presence and Concealment seeks to enter those internal spaces that have not yet been fully named. Beginning with the body, memory, and cultural experience, the artists translate individual narratives into fluid visual structures, where the “self” is no longer a stable entity, but a continuously unfolding process.

In the exhibition, forms are dismantled and reassembled, and boundaries become blurred. Private emotions and public images intertwine, where fragility and strength coexist simultaneously. Presence and concealment are no longer opposites, but two dimensions within the same generative mechanism.

This is not an exhibition about “revelation,”
but about what is still in the process of becoming.

Participating Artists

Claire Dubois
Mehdi Rahimi
Mikhail Petrov
Sofia Moretti
Javier Ruiz
Aoi Tanaka
Qintong Yu

Featured Work

Veil of Becoming (2025)
Size: 29.7 × 21 cm

This work explores the inner conflict of self-construction through layered bodily structures and nested visual forms, creating a fluid psychological space. Against a palette of deep grey and blue-green tones, electric visual ruptures emerge, symbolizing moments of sudden self-awareness.

Exhibition Keywords

Becoming / Generation
Presence
Concealment
Body Memory
Female Subjectivity
Inner Architecture

About the Exhibition

This exhibition brings together artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, responding through varied visual languages to the contemporary individual’s fluid condition within identity, memory, and social structures.

In a cross-cultural context, “presence” and “concealment” are not merely visual experiences, but also a fundamental inquiry into modes of existence.