Where Shadow Fails

Artists

Toshihiko Mitsuya

Press release

A shadow confirms presence. It binds a body to the ground, stabilizing its place in the world. Where shadow fails, this certainty begins to loosen.

The installation unfolds as a garden that cannot be fixed in time. Plant-like forms made of aluminium reflect light and their surroundings, their outlines shifting with movement and changing conditions. Metallic yet fragile, they resist clear states of growth or decay, remaining suspended between the living and the non-living.

In this space, the loss of shadow is not merely visual. It marks a moment in which life and death are no longer opposed. Death does not appear as an ending, but as something already folded into the continuity of life.

What emerges is not a defined boundary, but a threshold where distinctions loosen and remain unresolved. Here, form does not insist on stability, and presence persists without the need for clear contours.