2025.10 / Falling Sun at AKIINOUE in Tokyo

Solo Exhinition "Falling Sun" Ryunosuke Okazaki AKIINOUE THE ROWS 2F 2-3 Daikanyama-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo October 4 (Sat) ‒ November 1 (Sat), 2025 Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 – 19:00 (Closed on Sundays, Mondays & Public Holidays) Enfolding Memory, Weaving Light —On the Occasion of Falling Sun Humanity has long feared, praised, and prayed to the sun. Across history, it has been revered not only as a source of life-giving light, but also as an absolute force that brings destruction and death. On August 6, 1945, when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the blinding flash and heat were described as though the sun itself had fallen to earth. Unlike the natural sun, this was an artificial sun wrought by human hands. The city was incinerated, and innumerable lives were lost. My grandmother was among those exposed to radiation that day. During my middle and high school years, I crossed the Peace Bridge near the hypocenter of the bombing on my daily bicycle commute. In the flow of the river and the shifting light, I sensed an ineffable weight and gentleness. As much as it was a landscape, it became a memory inscribed upon the body. For me, to form the shape of the sun in golden fabric is not simply to replicate a symbol. It is an act of prayer, to look up toward light while carrying the memory of destruction, and to attempt the weaving of a future anew. Fabric is the material closest to the human body. It touches, enfolds, protects, and carries within it time, sentiment, and memory. Gold, as a chromatic presence, is a complex symbol of the sacred, the glorious, and also death, atonement, and the desire for eternity. A falling sun, a setting sun—cycles of daily life, and the memory of destruction. This is an attempt to stage a quiet dialogue with that absolute and distant presence, to weave light into the future while embracing destruction and regeneration, memory and prayer, weaving light into the future.