Takeru Amano revisits his iconic figures with renewed energy, where Venus and floral motifs unfold within vibrant, moving compositions. Far from any frontal simplicity, his paintings are built on an unstable balance, carried by a subtle mastery of rhythm and composition. Light and shadow, treated as genuine materials, sculpt bodies and spaces, creating an almost theatrical tension. Between sensuality and restraint, this new series asserts a mature painting practice, at once powerful and elegant, where the classical figure becomes the ground for a resolutely contemporary expression.

For the first time in Paris, this presentation is joined by the works of Minami Yoshida and Takuya Yoshida, whose practices, though distinct, engage in dialogue around intimacy and memory.

In Minami Yoshida’s work, ceramics become a space of care and protection. Her sculptures evoke shelter, the protective gesture, the silent prayer. The material, fragile and sensitive, carries an almost ritual dimension, where body and emotion merge.

Takuya Yoshida, meanwhile, develops a painting practice of sensation and memory. Through layered brushwork, restrained touches and diffuse colour, he captures suspended emotional states, between apparent softness and melancholic depth. His works do not narrate; they suggest, leaving the viewer space for intimate projection.

Mathilde Danglade’s works extend this attention to material and time through textile and collage. Through assemblages of fabric, sewn and recomposed patchworks, she creates sensitive, almost bodily surfaces, where each fragment retains the trace of a use, a past. Her work evokes reconstruction, the memory of the body, and a form of silent repair.

Finally, Suitou Nakatsuka presents works born from a word, a kanji, an initial thought transformed into contemporary form. Trained in calligraphy, her practice moves away from it toward an abstract pictorial script, where gesture, rhythm and breath take precedence over literal meaning. Each piece engages in a dialogue between tradition and abstraction, offering a visual and meditative reading of Japanese philosophy, where writing becomes matter.