Tomoko Hasuwa: FAN: Solo Exhibition

YIRI ARTS Taipei is pleased to announce FAN, an upcoming solo exhibition by Japanese artist Tomoko Hasuwa, presented from July 16 to August 29, 2026. Featuring a new body of paintings, the exhibition explores perception, memory, and the emotional resonance of fleeting everyday encounters.

At the heart of Hasuwa's practice lies an enduring interest in the act of seeing itself. Rather than working from still photographs, the artist records fleeting encounters from her daily life and travels, revisiting these moving images repeatedly to isolate fragments of light, color, gesture, and atmosphere. Through painting, these passing moments are transformed into visual meditations on perception, memory, and emotional resonance.

The exhibition title FAN refers not only to admiration, but also to a particular mode of attention. For Hasuwa, people, landscapes, and ephemeral moments encountered in everyday life possess an intrinsic value worthy of celebration. Adopting the perspective of both observer and devotee, she approaches painting as a means of preserving encounters that might otherwise disappear into the flow of time.

Rather than reconstructing specific scenes, Hasuwa's paintings operate in the space between observation and recollection. Removed from their original temporal sequence, figures, colors, and fragments of scenery gradually detach from narrative certainty and become vessels for memory and sensation. Repetition, fragmentation, and chromatic shifts evoke the visual afterimages of moving pictures, mirroring the ways in which memories persist, dissolve, and reform within consciousness.

For Hasuwa, painting functions not as a record of what was seen, but as a mechanism for retaining what was felt. Personal encounters are transformed into open-ended images that invite viewers to project their own experiences, emotions, and associations. In this way, seeing becomes an act of shared participation rather than passive observation.

Rather than presenting a singular narrative, FAN proposes a way of being in the world-one defined by attentiveness, affection, and wonder. Through this new body of work, Hasuwa encourages viewers to reconsider the fleeting moments that often pass unnoticed, and the enduring traces they leave behind within memory.