Kyoko Shindo：Between the Terrarium and the Beyond: Solo Exhibition

YIRI ARTS Taipei is pleased to present Between the Terrarium and the Beyond, an upcoming solo exhibition by Japanese artist Kyoko Shindo, on view from July 16 through August 29, 2026.

Kyoko Shindo paints worlds in which humans, animals, plants, and memories coexist. Her works unfold as living landscapes, where myth and everyday experience, personal recollection and collective imagination intertwine within a shared ecology of forms.

Rooted in an ongoing exploration of cyclical time, Shindo's paintings consider life not as a linear progression, but as a continuous process of transformation. Recurring motifs-including gardens, children, animals, and botanical forms-appear throughout her work as vessels through which memory, emotion, and existence circulate. Drawing from personal experiences as well as myths and folklore, she creates poetic spaces where boundaries between past and future, reality and imagination become increasingly fluid.

In Between the Terrarium and the Beyond, the terrarium serves as a metaphor for a self-contained yet ever-evolving universe. Like a miniature ecosystem, life within these worlds undergoes constant cycles of emergence, transformation, and renewal. Beyond their boundaries lies an immeasurable realm that remains only partially visible, linking the intimate scale of individual experience to a broader continuum of time and existence.

Rather than illustrating specific narratives, Shindo's paintings invite contemplation of life as an interconnected condition of becoming. Through richly layered compositions and luminous color, she constructs spaces in which growth and decay, beginnings and endings, remain inseparable. The exhibition reflects on the invisible relationships that bind all living things and the quiet rhythms of change that shape both nature and human experience.

With this new body of work, Shindo invites viewers into a space between the microcosmic and the infinite, where memory, mythology, and the natural world converge. Within these paintings, life unfolds as an ongoing cycle-one in which every presence is connected to another, and every transformation holds the possibility of renewal.