Where We Meet (Red–Orange) #02

acrylic on canvas, wooden panel
h: 15, w: 10.2, d: 3 cm
2026

*Delivery will be after the current solo exhibition "Ima Koko / Here and Now" (until 2026.5.23).
https://www.nomart.co.jp/exhibition/detail.php?exhCode=0225

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I understand the rainbow not as a decomposition of light, but as a shift in pressure.
Like the fluctuation that moves from low to high pressure, changes in pressure within the body subtly alter perception.
I translate those differences from black and white into color.

Keiichi Ikegami

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[From the artist's comment at the solo exhibition "Ima Koko / Here and Now" (2026.4.18-5.23 / Gallery Nomart)]

While sketching the Great Buddha in Nara, I felt a pressure from above, as if I were being pressed down, despite not being touched. It was a sensation that could only be described as being acupressured by the Buddha.


Through shiatsu, I have long engaged with the body through touch, and in the moments just before the passing of my parents and family members, I experienced the release of bodily tension. From this, I came to understand that a living body and its tension are inseparable. I have since sought to fix that sensation as a form of pressure arising between the black of charcoal and the white of the support.

Since my solo exhibition last year, I have become interested in Buddhist statues—human in form, yet seemingly devoid of such tension—and have been sketching various figures, including the Great Buddha of Nara.

Through these experiences, I realized that pressure is not only something applied by the fingers, but something already given by space and the universe itself. We are constantly living within the pressures of the universe—gravity, air, and atmospheric force.

In this exhibition, each fleeting moment of encountering that pressure—each “here and now”—is presented as the work itself. It is an event that emerges only in that place, where the pressure arising between the body and the universe manifests in the “here and now” of this space.