We are pleased to announce that gallery UG Tennoz will host a Solo exhibition "Lost Garden" by Saori HASEGAWA from Friday, May 2 to Sunday, May 25, 2025.

Saori HASEGAWA has been working consistently on the theme of “Lost Landscapes”. In 2022, she participated in the "Blue Period" exhibition at the Terada Warehouse, followed by her participation in the group exhibition "Visualization" at galley UG Tennoz in 2023 and her solo exhibition "Botanical garden" at Bakurocho. In the past years, she has been exhibiting at numerous art fairs, expanding her activities beyond the borders of Japan.

In this exhibition, visitors can enjoy the novelty of standing in front of Saori HASEGAWA's paintings, and let their consciousness be guided by their own memories and fantasies.

Please stop by if you are in the neighborhood.

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"What human beings cannot do
is truly see the landscape before us when our consciousness is not grounded in the “here and now.”

A landscape that cannot be seen = nowhere.
“Nowhere” appears only when we wander—yet we cannot see it.
All we can do is notice that the unseen landscape might have existed.
We live our lives overlooking such presences.

As long as we exist in the present, the “now” clings to us—so close that we can hardly see it.
What a lost child needs is not to return, but to become lost in another place—somewhere outside of the “here and now.”

The paintings in this exhibition do not represent the landscapes of a lost child.
They do not depict lost landscapes, because “Nowhere” is a landscape that cannot be seen.
These works are not representations—they are devices that invite the viewer to wander into “another place,”
and perhaps notice the quiet presence of “Nowhere.”

What we encounter here is surely such an existence."

ー Saori HASEGAWA