Installation view, AWAI

AWAI
Marina Berio, Aya Fujioka, Asa Hiramatsu
Closing Saturday, December 20, 2025
525 West 26th St, NYC

There’s still time to catch the group exhibition, Awai, at Seizan Gallery before it closes on December 20! Featuring the strikingly distinct practices of Marina Berio, Aya Fujioka, and Asa Hiramatsu—each working in a different medium—the exhibition thoughtfully explores and embodies the delicate, polysemous notion of awai. A classical Japanese term, awai describes an in-between or liminal realm where entities meet, overlap, and interact. It evokes the subtle thresholds between dualities such as light and shadow, self and other, reality and dream.

Marina Berio presents a series of charcoal drawings (2007–2012) that reimagine photographic negatives of landscapes and studios, where light and shadow invert to evoke themes of loss, doubt, and ambivalence. She also debuts three new gum bichromate prints—created with unconventional pigments, including her own blood—that transform family photographs into intimate meditations on memory and the body.

Photographer Aya Fujioka presents selected works from LIFE STUDIES, her newly published series with AKAAKA in Kyoto, capturing fleeting moments of New York life from the late 2000s to 2010s. Influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson, her photographs blur the line between the personal and the collective—quiet reflections of her own struggles that become universal meditations on urban existence and human connection.

Self-taught painter Asa Hiramatsu makes her U.S. debut with six new canvases characterized by textured, muted surfaces built through tactile, hand-applied oil paint. Evoking dreamlike stillness, her works transform personal memories and inner visions into quiet explorations of balance and being—where imagination and reality, presence and absence, gently converge.

Be sure to experience it before it closes!

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