SENS Gallery is pleased to announce ‘Walk in the Maze Forest’, a solo exhibition of Japanese artist and sculptor Masao Nakahara. Through tranquil and vivid surroundings, Nakahara invites audiences to explore the ‘maze forest’ of his creative mind, reflecting on what it means to exist in the world in which we live in.

‘Walk in the Maze Forest’ showcases Nakahara’s new works, stemmed from the everyday drawings created in his diaries in the last four years. The pages of these diaries are a portal to what the artist has described as a “familiar yet wondrous place, like a mysterious forest”. Nakahara’s visual language is transcribed through ageless humanlike figures interacting with the diverse terrains on which they stand upon, existing within the artist’s own memories and daydreams. These figures assume a state of universality, involving themselves in situations, and questioning what it means to be human. They are innocent in nature, with a subtle liveliness to their characters. But beneath the surface, they are concurrently attempting to find their way in the world, balancing loneliness and the search for their identity, as well as dealing with memories and looking to the future. 

Gallery address: 1908 Landmark South, 39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang