KG+ Pickup: Samsara, Fragments of Circularity

Series title: “Samsara, Fragments of Circularity” 

Artist: Jinn Yagi
Dates: Saturday, April 13 – Sunday, May 5
Venue: Backs Gazai Gallery
backs Gazai Gallery

Backs Gazai 2F, 11 Ichijoji Hinokuchi-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8167

Exhibition Statement

Samsara is a religious and philosophical concept found in Buddhism, Hinduism, and other traditions. It refers to the cycle in which a being,

passing through birth, death, and rebirth, is born again into a new life.

In this exhibition, “Samsara, Fragments of Circularity,” images generated from Jinn Yagi’s photographs and paintings

are continuously repeated and reiterated on a single canvas,

allowing visitors to feel the infinite possibilities of art and the beauty of transformation.

Different techniques intersect exquisitely, and the images of circulating fragments

become intricate, symmetrical geometric patterns and figures within circles and squares,

drawing mandala patterns.

A parallel world born from car taillights

Clouds born from insecticide

A demon born from merging the flags of nations at war

A microcosmic stained glass born from scrap iron

Fragments that can become either karma or beauty:

hints toward liberation dwell in the details of things.

Jinn Yagi unearths them and shares the images that dwell in samsara,

and visitors experience a part of their own samsara within the works.

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