THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to announce its participation in the 2025 edition of KYOTOGRAPHIE Kyoto International Photography Festival (KG+), presenting Wu Yumo’s solo exhibition Room Without a Clear View. Marking the artist’s first solo exhibition in Japan, the exhibitions features photographs that engage in a dialogue with the washitsu of the venue, transforming the space into an immersive installation. The exhibition is on view at Kyoto27 in Kyoto, from 12 April to 11 May 2025.

Wu Yumo’s exhibition Room Without a Clear View takes place in a space akin to a traditional Japanese washitsu. The room has no glass windows – only translucent shoji windows that diffuses light like a veil, while photographs of clouds and rooms lie within.

Without a clear view alludes to a state that is neither opaque nor lucid, obscured and modulated by layered imagery. In folklore, the temporal moment between night and day is most susceptible to energetic hazards, yet simultaneously presents the possibility of rebirth. At this state of in-betweenness, both illusions and potentials might emerge.

Objects in this space are in flux: clouds can be dissipating or igniting; shattered glass can be hovering at a precarious angle without collapsing. The photographs are composed of plural states through the method of layering: the relationship of scale between the body and the room, ephemerality in the different times of recording, subtle augmentation or surreal shifts from reality through editing. This state of transmutation is represented by the ever-shifting forms of clouds, the trembling of hands while photographing, and the imprecise drifting of digital brushstrokes.

The work Semi-fictional Clouds and the Photocopies of Clouds buttons the two series together – the photocopies become coarse-textured mirrors, reflecting clouds while diffusing the room at the same time. In this room, without a clear view, solidity dissolves and light eludes, perceptions oscillate between concealment and revelation, illusion and imagination, potentials and impossibilities.

Texts: Xue Ke, Wu Yumo

THE SHOPHOUSE欣然宣布參加2025年京都國際攝影節（KG+），呈獻武雨墨個展「不明的房間」（Room Without a Clear View）。本次展覽是武雨墨在日本的首次個展，展出的攝影與作為展出場所的和室產生對話，將空間變為裝置。展覽於京都Kyoto27舉辦，展期為2025年4月12日至5月11日。

武雨墨的展覽「不明的房間」發生在類於和室的空間，空間內並沒有玻璃窗子，透光不透景的和室紙窗將室外的風景轉譯成為室內的光色，雲和房間的照相片並置於此。

展覽中「不明」的意涵既是暗光中視力的不明，也是理解的不明，處於既不完全混沌，又不完全明晰的中間狀態。傳說晨昏交接之時是會被魔力入侵的危險時刻，但同時也是重生的時刻。錯覺和可能會同時在不明處出現。

在房間略顯昏沈的光色中，積雲可以墜落，卷雲可以燃燒，破碎的玻璃水杯可以傾而不倒。房間系列照相片來自於多層空間的相互疊加——身體對房間感應、不同時段的真實拍攝、與現實些許偏移的生成圖像，而雲系列來自於多重動勢的相互疊加——雲始終逃逸的形態、拍攝瞬間手的顫動、數字畫筆的失準筆勢。《虛構、影印、真實》則像一枚扣子一樣將兩組照相片的重心系起，並成為整個展覽的隱喻——印紙是一面質料粗糙的鏡子，在反射雲的同時散射房間。不明中，光線變得遊移，實體不再堅固，感知持續在隱匿和顯現、錯覺和想象、可能和不可能之間震顫。

文/薛珂、武雨墨

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