Artist Collective
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Established in 2019
Pronounced “ni”
An artist collective by Hiroshi Nagata and Kosuke Kawahara.
The main goal is to deconstruct the number 2, equal, and the invention of “Indivisual”, and to
connect those who confront it to the realization of nothingness, ambiguity, or “a visionary world
where boundaries dissolve”.
ni(at)nitwo.net
Nagata’s work, by repeating to the utmost limit the consideration of “nothingness” from the katakana
form of “mu,” is placed permanently in the innermost part of the space as a monument of instinctive
form that is located on the opposite shore from the thoughts that appear clad in a smooth surface
layer.
Kawahara’s drawings, through his residency in the exhibition space, intuitively and ritualistically
present site-specific elements as random or incomprehensible images on a platform for the language
of index cards.
The coexistence of the two works in the same space is an attempt to establish a cycle from
contemplation to instinct, from impulse to contemplation, to dismantle the boundary between
individual and individual existence, and to bring all dualistic concepts back to “nothingness”.