There, All Along – note03 Learning How to Experience
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We are pleased to present "There, All Along", an exhibition by visual artist Anne at Gallery Rin in Kyoto.
In the quiet atmosphere of Kyoto, this exhibition may introduce a subtle shift in how we perceive what we see.
In the days leading up to the exhibition, I will be sharing a series of quiet notes
— reflections on what I encountered while spending time with Anne’s work.
Text： Shiho Kanai / Art Director of Gallery Rin
Before working in this field, I often found myself standing in front of artworks, unsure of what I was supposed to see. I would spend time in museums, moving from one piece to another, with the quiet feeling that I was missing something.
Not because nothing was there, but because I did not know how to receive it.
Since becoming more closely involved with art, that feeling has not entirely disappeared. But something about it has changed. I no longer feel that I need to arrive at a single understanding, or that there is a correct way to stand in front of a work.
Instead, I have begun to think of art as a kind of language — not one that explains, but one that speaks from a particular place, shaped by experience, time, and the world each artist has lived through. And perhaps, to encounter a work is not to decode it, but to meet it.
I have practiced Japanese tea ceremony since I was nineteen. In that time, I have learned to remain with what I can truly hold — not to overreach, but to stay as I am. Tea is never practiced alone; it exists through the presence of others, where different experiences and ways of seeing quietly meet.
What we bring with us — our memories, our expectations, our ways of seeing — becomes part of that encounter. Spending time with Anne’s work, I found myself returning to this again and again.
The figures appear playful, full of color and movement, and yet something in their expressions or gestures feels slightly unsettled. But even that feeling shifts depending on how I look.
What appears one way to me may appear entirely differently to someone else. And perhaps, that difference itself matters — not in finding the right meaning, but in allowing different ways of seeing to exist.
If there is one change I have noticed in myself, it is this: I can now remain with a work, even without fully understanding it. And that time itself can become an experience.
I hope that, in spending time with Anne’s work, each person may find their own way of seeing — or simply, a moment to pause.
Anne Exhibition "There, All Along"
18 May – 29 May 2026
Monday – Friday
12:00 – 16:00
In accordance with the gallery’s hours
Anne Profile
Anne is a visual artist whose work focuses on what existed before labels were attached, on what resonates in the gaps beyond language, and on the quiet gaze of those who stand at the boundary.
Exploring the invisible, the unspoken, and what quietly slips through, Anne’s work brings light to the spaces in between human perception.
By making these gaps the focus, the practice gently unfolds the layered memories that have long been covered.
Website: https://www.anneanne.art/
Instagram @anneanne.art
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