For Frieze London 2025, Tokyo-based gallery Kayokoyuki presents a dialogue between two Japanese artists, Daichi Takagi and Yutaka Nozawa, whose works explore the shifting boundaries between space, time, figuration, and abstraction through painting, photography, and video.

Daichi Takagi’s work draws deeply from nature and from the elements that shape our everyday surroundings.
Early in his career, he deconstructed and reconstructed landscapes geometrically, often using bright colors, but his artistic practice drastically changed after a residency in the Netherlands as part of the Oversea Research Program Grant he received from the Agency for Cultural Affairs of the Japanese Government in 2018-2019. At Frieze, some works from his Stone series invites viewers to focus on overlooked details. In one painting titled Stone, Takagi focuses on a small rock, about five centimeters wide, found near his home in Gifu. Through it, he highlights the overlooked details of everyday life that often escape our attention. In another work from his Wanderer series, he paints an imagined landscape where a small figure stands beneath the moon — another stone, but this time distant, mythic, and endlessly depicted. One painting looks in, the other zooms out; together they create a dialogue between scale, and between inward and outward intuition.

Yutaka Nozawa is a multimedia artist working across photography, installation and painting. While painting isn’t his original first practice, the artist wanted to get more into this medium recently, and produced a number of paintings part of his CANVAS canvas series. Always with a humoristic touch, the artist presents two works side by side: one being a painting and one a photograph. For each work, Nozawa carries a blank canvas to a chosen site (a street, a room…), photographs it in situ, then paints that same canvas back in the studio. Returning to the original location, he places the finished painting in the same spot and takes a second photograph. he places that canvas on the scene and takes a picture. The resulting diptych, that he exhibits (and sells) side by side, narrates a story around time, perception and space. Between finding the right spot and finishing the piece, a small lapse of time allows Nozawa to reconsider how to capture what he sees. The result is a new kind of still life that plays with the line between reality and its reflection.