What he saw were houses wrapped in duct tape, trees with empty Coca-Cola cans growing on them, and flowerpots wearing jeans. Each one was strange, yet somehow humorous. They could be described as personal, modest "monuments" hidden behind the orderly facade of the city.

Of course, these are far from conventional "beauty," and one might be bewildered if they were next to their home. Nevertheless, there's a strange charm to the freedom of expression, unbound by purpose or common sense.

This exhibition will offer an opportunity to re-examine our unconscious assumptions about how we view our daily lives through these objects.

Kohei Maekawa Profile
Born in Tokyo in 1993. Photographer. Dropped out of the Department of Photography, College of Art, Nihon University.
He has participated in workshops with Osamu Kanemura, Riki Kaihara, and Magnum Photos (Rafał Milaf & Anja Naletska-Milaf).

His photo series "Yard," documenting strange buildings he found while working as a pizza delivery driver, was selected for the "Young Portfolio 2020" for the first time, and has been selected for three consecutive years since. 26 works from this project are housed in the Kiyosato Photo Art Museum. In 2023, he was a finalist for the PITCH GRANT (Japan), and in 2025, he was nominated for MAST (Italy). In the same year, he was featured as one of 15 promising young photographers in the British photography magazine "Ones to Watch 2025" (published by the British Journal of Photography).

His major solo exhibitions include "The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side" (2021/Alt_Medium), "Carved Land" (2023/IG Photo Gallery), and "You Can Fix Your House with Duct Tape" (2024/LIBRIS KOBAKO). His major interviews have appeared in "Roadsiders’ weekly" (2021/2022).

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