The exhibition at WATARI-UM, the Watari Museum serves as a small retrospective of works created over six decades. The selection, however, is enough to highlight the essential qualities of this art – the alignment of life and work, visual minimalism, the deliberate elimination of things, philosophical reflection – or simply attention turned inward – along with the pursuit of harmony: harmony with ourselves, with nature, and with our surroundings. The exhibition brings together a variety of Kamoji’s works, all of which are inextricably linked to the artist’s deeply internalized experience.

Bataille draws our attention to the fact that we are light. This idea is further developed by Viktor Frankl, who points to its transformative power: ‘What is to give light must endure burning’. We take this as an invitation to enter another dimension of life – an encounter with the heart. We see the heart as our inner sun: as a source of strength, love and light, but also as a force that orders and burns.