■Woven Perception—Aya KAWATO Solo Exhibition
2026.03.14-2026.04.26

▍Opening Talk
03.14 Sat. 15:00
Speaker
Aya KAWATO × YANG Yu-Jui 

▍Opening
03.14 Sat. 16:30

▍Le Corbusier: Poems of a Modern Architecture Pioneer

CHINI Gallery Special Session

《When Aya Kawato Meets Le Corbusier - A Dialogue Between Architecture and Art》

03.21 Sat. 14:30-16:00

Text/ Aya KAWATO

My practice begins with the question of how perception comes into being. Although we tend to feel that we grasp the world as a continuous image, perception is in fact the result of fragmentary and heterogeneous information being temporarily integrated through bodily sensation.

All of the works presented in this exhibition are constructed from the same single curve. This curve is not used as an expressive gesture, but as a reproducible form with a controlled rhythm—serving as the smallest structural unit of the work. While the curve itself remains unchanged, variations in the number of repetitions, spacing, overlaps, dotted-line width, and color give rise to diverse densities, flows, and interferences across the pictorial surface.

As repetition increases, the line gradually ceases to be grasped as an individual form and comes to be perceived instead as surface, vibration, or movement. Within a field that may initially appear uniform, multiple rules coexist and overlap, and the image is continuously reconfigured in response to the viewer’s shifting gaze.

The set of five drawings included in the exhibition functions as a structural model that presents these changes in perception at their most elementary level. Beginning from a single curve, the process through which form dissolves through repetition and layering offers one example of how we apprehend objects in the world.

The works in this exhibition do not present completed images. Rather, they point to the inherent incompleteness of perception, and to the fact that our sense of understanding the world is itself unstable—constantly shifting and subject to renewal. It is my hope that this exhibition will provide an opportunity to reconsider the act of seeing itself.