From the 11th of April, Marc Jancou Contemporary presents a two-person exhibition of Kaoru Arima and Hikari Ono bringing the two artists in dialogue for the first time. The artists' practices, despite Arima working primarily in painting and Ono in sculpture, reveal a shared philosophical sensibility rooted in contemplation, material awareness, and Japanese aesthetic traditions.

Arima’s restrained compositions explore silence, emptiness, and the delicate balance between presence and absence, transforming the canvas into a space of quiet reflection. Ono approaches ceramics with a similarly poetic vision, treating the surface of her forms as painterly planes where colour, texture, and rhythm unfold in three dimensions. Together, their works create a subtle conversation in which painting and ceramics become parallel languages investigating how matter can express the invisible, carrying traces of time, memory, and spiritual resonance.

Curated by Annalisa Lombardo Stevens, the exhibition invites viewers to encounter a meeting point between mediums and sensibilities, where artistic creation emerges as a meditative process and a bridge between the material and the metaphysical.

Join us on Wednesday the 22nd of April from 6pm for a reception to celebrate the exhibition and a walkthrough in the presence of Hikari Ono.