Supermarket 2025 dates: 3–6 April 2025
Open call closed 11 October 2024
Supermarket 2025 dates: 3–6 April 2025
Open call closed 11 October 2024

NIIGATA EYA

Niigata, Japan

10-1864
Chuo-ku,kamiohkawamaedori
951-8068 Niigata City
Niigata Prefecture
Niigata, Japan

info@niigata-eya.jp

NIIGATA EYA is an art gallery established in Niigata, Japan, in 2000, jointly run by nine ‘viewers’ and having held over 680 exhibitions to date. At SUPERMARKET 2025, we showcase the project 'imitsu' (i fulfilling), which Tokyo‑based artist Minoru Sasaki has been developing since 2015. The project consists of drawing signs of イ (the Japanese character for the /i/ sound) as representatives of human beings; Sasaki inscribes structurally almost similar but amazingly singular signs of イ, as if mirroring us humans, sharing commonalities while celebrating individual uniqueness. "I feel like I render our diverse torches of life animated by joy and pain," says the artist.

Minoru Sasaki 'イ i ', graphite, coloured pencil, charcoal, pastel, watercolour, ink, oil, ash, and magnet on paper, 45 × 52 × 6 cm, 2022
Minoru Sasaki 'イ i ', graphite, coloured pencil, charcoal, pastel, and ink on paper, 27 × 21 × 3 cm, 2024
Minoru Sasaki 'イ i ', graphite and ink on paper, 34 × 25 cm, 2015
Minoru Sasaki 'イ i ', exhibition view, photo: Kei Miyajima
NIIGATA EYA, photo: Isamu Murai


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