We are delighted to announce the upcoming exhibition “Ways of Sensing In-between”, curated by the students of the Graduate School of Global Arts. This exhibition will be held at Chinretsukan Gallery, commencing on March 20, 2026 (Fri).

Today, we live in a vortex of infinite choices and overwhelming flows of information. In such an environment, we find ourselves repeatedly asking: what should we believe, and how should we live?

Kisui-iki (brackish water), where freshwater and seawater meet, form a zone that is unstable yet rich in diversity. In an equally murky society where countless perspectives overlap and collide, what do we sense: anxiety, or freedom?

Together with seven artists, this exhibition creates a Kisui-iki: an in-between space where concepts and meanings intersect and fluctuate.  As you drift through the exhibition, you will encounter different ways of seeing the world. At times, these perspectives may feel unsettling; at other times, they may resonate deeply. Through this experience, you can sense your own internal “density” and find the traction to move forward, forming a temporary personal map. Resisting the speed that demands hasty answers, and instead persisting in experimentation— this act serves as the clue to honing the senses needed to swim freely through these uncertain times.

Ways of Sensing In-between

Dates: 2026.3.20(Fri) – 3.29(Sun)
Opening Hours: 10:00 – 17:00
Admission: Free
Venue: Chinretsukan Gallery 2F, Tokyo University of the Arts
Address: 12-8 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo

Artists: Scott Wade, Naoko Oyama, Mizuko Kaji × Yubusha Butoh, Mayo Kobayashi, Daiki Saito, Hisui, Goki Muramoto
Curators: Motoi Ando, Jiaxuan Yu, Mika Okuda, Hanako Kurita, Siyao Chen, Kanna Hatakeyama, Wenxuan Lin

Tel: 050-5541-8600
Instagram: @ga_curatorial
Website: https://ga.geidai.ac.jp
Contacts: exhibition2025@ml.geidai.ac.jp

Graphic designer: Kohei Sekigawa

Organized by: Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
Co-organized by: Culture Vision Japan
*This exhibition is realized as part of the “Curatorial Practice Exercise”, a course offered at the Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.

Artists

Scott Wade
Filmmaker and storyteller. Born in Woking, on the outskirts of London, U.K. Scott Wade has been based in Tokyo for the past six years. During this period, his practice shifted from music composition to film writing and directing. His work explores the tension between the surreal and the everyday, paying attention to the small, ordinary details of the daily life. He explores a mode of being grounded in simplicity and the unrefined, asking what everyday life can reveal through careful observation.

Naoko Oyama
Home health nurse. Naoko Oyama studied agriculture in high school before pursuing a career in nursing. Since 2012, she has worked in the home medical care division of Sakura-Shimmachi Urban Clinic. Concurrent with her nursing practice, she completed the Photography Course at Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2020. She is currently pursuing graduate studies there. Through her photography, Oyama explores the conversations with the elderly, perspectives on life and death, and the meaning of end-of-life care. Her practice seeks to reconsider the culture of end-of-life care in the contemporary era.

Mizuko Kaji × Yubusha Butoh

• Mizuko Kaji
  Mizuko Kaji studied architecture at both undergraduate and graduate levels before working at SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa). She later studied fashion at Bunka Fashion College and worked as a costume designer for theater in New York. After returning to Japan, she established an independent practice, and currently enrolled in the doctoral program in Mural Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts. Her work focuses on the spatial expression, bridging architecture, fashion, theater, and art together.
• Yubusha Butoh
  Butoh collective. Founded by butoh dancers Yuko and Keiko, and artist and dramaturg Suzuko. The collective produces works rooted in diverse dance traditions, including butoh and regional folk performing arts. Alongside their own performances, Yubusha engages in collaborative projects with other artists, researchers, and poets from Japan and abroad. In Tono City, Iwate Prefecture, the members study Kagura with the Hayachine-take style Sotoyama Kagura Preservation Society.

Mayo Kobayashi
Born in 1992. Based in Tokyo. Mayo Kobayashi draws on a distinctive perspective on the body shaped by ballet and street dance since childhood. Her practice is informed by Carl Jung’s analytical psychology, clinical psychological research on recurrent dreams, and studies of religious emotion. Kobayashi focuses on encounters between the body and digital media. With interests in astronomy, archaeology, and posthumanism, her practice examines how the transformation of the world is witnessed within shifting constellations. Rather than drawing boundaries between the digital and the analog, she connects them through a practice that spans two-dimensional works, video installations, and physical performance.

Daiki Saito

Born in 2002, Daiki Saito is currently enrolled in the Department of Sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts. Drawing on his background in sculpture, his practice incorporates improvisational methods and performative actions that impose intense physical demands on the body. Through these processes, he explores sculptural concerns such as stillness, balance, and the act of standing. His recent exhibitions include Dudley Death Drop (2024, Tokyo) and TRANZ KAYFABE DØKTRIN (2025, Tokyo).

Hisui

Born in 2000, Hisui graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Osaka Seikei University. Her practice focuses on the subtle fluctuations of emotion and thought that emerge in everyday life. She approaches the act of painting as a means of addressing the process of these shifts themselves. Drawing on sensations of discomfort and hesitation that exist prior to language, she explores ways of articulating inner changes and responses through indeterminate imagery and layered, overlapping brushstrokes on the canvas.

Goki Muramoto

Artist. Born in Yamaguchi in 1999. Lives and works in Tokyo. He explores “mediation,” encompassing perception, communication, and movement through the process of inventing and sculpting original “media.” Major works include Imagraph, a medium that projects video onto closed eyelids; Lived Montage, a pair of glasses that allows us to share our vision when we share the object of our consciousness; and Media of Langue, a dictionary-sculpture that depicts a chain of word translations. Solo exhibitions include “Beautiful Medium” (parcel, NEORT++, Tokyo, 2025), and his work has been presented in exhibitions across Japan and abroad.