Takuya Ikezaki “Heaven“

Oct 23 opening.
Oct 24 appointment only.
Oct 29 appointment only.

Opening Reception Oct 23, 2021, 5 pm-7 pm.
Open Saturdays & Sundays 1 pm-6 pm 
and always by appointment.

Young Knee Cool is pleased to present “Heaven,” a solo exhibition by Takuya Ikezaki. This exhibition explores the boundaries of time and space to which we belong. Ikezaki is always inspired by his current place of belonging, his birthplace, family roots, and cultural influences. In this exhibition, Ikezaki will show photographs of massage parlor window posters and advertisements taken with his iPhone on the streets of New York, Tokyo, and Taiwan, etc… Some of the same images of those massage parlor advertisements have been used in many places around the world. For example, the image I saw today in Tokyo is used in the same way in New York. They exist secretly everywhere around the world in the same way, but when you encounter them, it is as if you have tripped over them, transforming the place into a different place. Ikezaki photographs these images, prints them, and places them in found frames that he picks up or finds at flea markets. Encountering frames of various sizes and shapes, the exhibition is designed to expand and contract the time and space that exists inside the images.