Hisae Ikenaga 04.4.2026 - 07.6.2026 Hisae Ikenaga: Anatomies of Use

Hisae Ikenaga – Anatomies of Use
at Kiosk Ghent

For her first solo exhibition in Belgium, Hisae Ikenaga presents a selection of existing and new works. The title Anatomies of Use refers to the subtle displacements that structure her practice: shifts of function, status, and meaning. Industrial and domestic objects are appropriated and reconfigured, their use suspended, their familiarity unsettled. Forms appear stabilized, as if halted after transformation, revealing tensions between use, form, and memory.

Ceramic works extend this reflection through the figure of the cylinder, borrowed from industrial lamination tools and transposed into pottery. The motif becomes form, matrix, and trace of gesture. In a new video in collaboration with film director Paula Onet, Soft Dissection, artisanal and medical gestures intersect, opening an ambiguous space between workshop and laboratory. Through these displacements — from tool to object, from gesture to image — Ikenaga constructs an archaeology of the present, where each form becomes trace, sculpture, and question.

Practical information:
Opening: 04.04.2026, 3 p.m. - 6 p.m
Exhibition open daily from 12 pm to 6 pm until 07.06.2026
Free entrance
Louis Pasteurlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium