Japanese contemporary artist Taiki Yokote has unveiled a two-venue solo exhibition spanning CON_ and parcel in Tokyo, featuring new sculptures, photographs, and installations that examine the shifting boundaries between reality, illusion, and memory.
Titled to make today lovely, too, at the parcel and to make today lonely, too, at CON_, the exhibitions occupy neighboring gallery spaces with nearly identical architecture. However, a single word distinguishes the two presentations, reflecting Yokote’s ongoing interest in how subtle changes in language and perception can transform emotional experience.
On view through 26 July, the exhibitions feature levitating stone sculptures, photographic works, textile installations, and sculptural interventions that invite visitors to reconsider the relationship between physical objects and unseen narratives.
Sculpture, photography and installation blur the line between reality and illusion
Across both galleries, Yokote assembles a cross-disciplinary body of work defined by quiet material experimentation and understated visual tension. Floating fragments of rock and broken concrete appear suspended beyond gravity, while towering blue tarp sculptures billow gently as though caught in an invisible current.
Meanwhile, large-scale photographic prints document fleeting traces left by animals, dust, and natural movement, capturing ephemeral moments that often escape everyday attention. Rows of plush puppies further introduce a sense of tenderness that contrasts with the raw textures of stone, concrete, and industrial materials.
Together, the works continue Yokote’s exploration of liminal space, where fantasy, perception, and lived reality intersect through carefully balanced sculptural compositions.
Parallel exhibitions examine how language shapes emotional experience
Rather than presenting two separate narratives, the paired exhibitions invite visitors to experience emotional duality through nearly identical environments. Consequently, the slight shift from lovely to lonely becomes a conceptual framework for considering how perspective influences meaning.
“Tenderness and loneliness, relief and anxiety are not separate emotions but two sides of the same day,” CON_ penned in a statement about the show. “The ambiguity of something inverting with a single change in perspective […] it quietly reaches outward, toward the question of how we look at the world, what we call things, and what we choose to connect with.”
to make today lovely, too, at parcel, and to make today lonely, too, at CON_ remain on view in Tokyo through 26 July, offering a meditation on language, perception, and contemporary sculpture through one of Japan’s emerging artistic voices.