Asa Hiramatsu, Seesaw <07>, 2025, oil on canvas, 44.1 x 63.8 in (112 x 162 cm)
Seizan Gallery proudly presents AWAI, a captivating group exhibition showcasing the strikingly distinct visions of Marina Berio, Aya Fujioka, and Asa Hiramatsu. Join them for the artists’ opening and artist talks next week to experience their work firsthand—and don’t miss Asako Tabata: Waiting for Bones, closing Saturday, October 18, a hauntingly poetic exhibition not to be missed!
AWAI
Marina Berio, Aya Fujioka, Asa Hiramatsu
October 23 – December 20, 2025
Opening Reception with Artists: Thursday, October 23, 6-8pm
Artist Gallery Talk: Saturday, October 25, 2-4pm
Awai is a classical Japanese term signifying an in-between realm or liminal space where two entities meet, overlap, or interact. It evokes the subtle boundary between dualities—light and shadow, self and other, reality and dream. This group exhibition brings together three distinguished artists, Marina Berio, Aya Fujioka, and Asa Hiramatsu, each working in a distinct medium, to explore and embody the delicate and polysemous notion of Awai.
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.
Join them in celebrating the opening with the artists on Thursday, October 23, from 6-8pm, and return for a gallery talk on Saturday, October 25, from 2-4pm, moderated by Pauline Vermare, the Philip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Installation view, Asako Tabata: Waiting for Bones
Asako Tabata: Waiting for Bones
Closing Saturday, October 18, 2025
Don’t miss your last chance to see Asako Tabata: Waiting for Bones at Seizan Gallery—on view through Saturday, October 18. Experience Tabata’s hauntingly poetic works before the exhibition closes soon!
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