KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Isaji Yugo at NADA New York 2025.

Isaji Yugo (b. 1985, Gifu, Japan) is an artist who creates works based on daily necessities that vividly deviate from the conventional viewpoint by shifting and modifying the perspective of everyday objects. Ballpoint pens, staples, cutter blades, plastic bottles—any mundane items serve as a source of inspiration for Isaji. At times, he welds the blades one by one, meticulously cuts the empty plastic bottles, soldered the thin needles of a staple one at a time, or heats and reshapes plastic pens and bottles, transforming these daily necessities into joyful works of art. 
 

Isaji says that when he visited the Munster Sculpture Project, he “wandered around the city and saw everything as sculpture,” and he calls this phenomenon “sculpture intoxication,” which is one of the starting points for his work. By bringing this perspective into his daily life, he has created sculptures that easily deviate from the known, using all kinds of ready-made materials and structures, such as cutter blades, plastic bottles, ballpoint pens, and other everyday objects.

If we define street art as an intervention in the public sphere accompanied by physicality, then Isaji’s works, created from his experiences in Munster and continuing to shake up the everyday, are truly “pure home-based street art.”