gallery UG Tennoz is pleased to present a new solo exhibition by Saori HASEGAWA, titled “Whispers of Memory,” on view from Friday, May 8 through Saturday, May 23, 2026.

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.

We warmly invite you to take this opportunity to view the exhibition.

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What humans cannot do
is to look at the scene before them while their consciousness is not in the “here and now” (to direct awareness toward it).

A scene that cannot be seen = a lost landscape.

Only when we wander does the “lost landscape” come into being.
Yet we cannot see that landscape.
All we can do is realize that such an unseen landscape must have existed. That is all. In the slight gap that occurs when we perceive the present scene, in that fleeting instant, awareness arises. And yet, we go on living while overlooking such presences.

As long as we live in the present, the time called “now” clings to us and never lets go. It is too close for us to see clearly. What such lost ones need is not the “here and now,” but to become lost in “another place.”

The paintings on display do not represent the lost landscape. Because the “lost landscape” is something humans cannot see. Rather, they are devices that generate wandering in “another place,” and serve as triggers for becoming aware of the “lost landscape.”
What exists here is surely that kind of presence.

ー Saori HASEGAWA