Looking Around What's Close at Hand — installation view 1

A documentary view of Osada's 2023 solo presentation Looking Around What's Close at Hand, installed as a constellation of discrete objects rather than wall-hung prints. The exhibition extends her sustained inquiry into how a printed surface can stand in for, rather than depict, a physical thing: silkscreen and UV inkjet are deployed to transfer scaled photographs of mundane found materials onto substrates chosen to mimic the originals. In this first installation view, the works are spaced across plinths and floor positions so that viewers must circulate to register each object as both photograph and replica. The gallery lighting flattens shadow on the printed faces, reinforcing the slippage between source and copy that is central to her method. The presentation belongs to a wider strand of contemporary Japanese printmaking — emerging from the Tokyo Geidai printmaking research lab — that treats hanga not as the production of multiples but as a procedural test of how mechanical image-transfer interacts with material support.