Tetoba Museum will be holding Imada Rino's solo exhibition "Between" from Wednesday, December 24, 2025 to Saturday, January 31, 2026.
This exhibition, "Between," focuses on the relationships that emerge between words, between people, and between space, a theme that artist Imada Rino has been conscious of in her recent work. It also incorporates the meaning of "between before and after," which will lead to a solo exhibition scheduled for 2027, after which she will spend a creative period in Kanazawa following her residency.
The works and thoughts of those who are still unfamiliar with Goto, and the changes that will likely arise after actually visiting Goto - this exhibition is designed to capture the sensations that emerge at the boundary between these two.
We hope that through this exhibition you will be able to sense the signs of the production that will be woven together in Goto and the quietly shifting sense of "aida" (space between spaces).
◼Exhibition information Exhibition name: Imada Rin'ei "Between"
Date: December 24, 2025 (Wednesday) - January 31, 2026 (Saturday)
Venue: Tetoba Museum (335-1 Tomie, Tomie-cho, Goto City, Nagasaki Prefecture)
Opening hours: 10:00-17:00 (last entry 16:30)
Closed: Tuesdays and Wednesdays (and other days)
Admission fee: 1,000 yen for adults / 500 yen for high school students and younger and island residents Organizer: Te to Ba LLC
Instagram: @tetoba_museum
*The artist will be present from December 24th to January 4th.
◼Rinoi Imada @rin_rinoi
Glass artist. His multifaceted work focuses on capturing the fleeting moments of language-based identity and emotion, positioning glass not only as a material but also as a vessel and tool for thought. In 2021, he received his master's degree from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York. He has received awards and artist-in-residence opportunities both in Japan and abroad, including at the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina and the GlazenHuis Museum in Lommel, Belgium. Since 2024, he has been affiliated with the Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Studio. While developing a series that visualizes traces of words and thoughts, he is expanding the scope of his exhibitions to hotels, art fairs, local art museums, and more.
Artist Statement: I attempt to verbalize and visualize through glass the everyday experiences of people that are difficult to put into words. While living in America as an adult, I became increasingly conscious of choosing the "right words" as I switched languages, and I began to feel a subtle disturbance in the contours of my own identity. This experience became the starting point for my creative endeavors to see what cannot be seen with the naked eye.
Glass's ability to retain its shape while still allowing light to pass through makes it an ideal medium for capturing vague and fluctuating sensations and communicating them to others.
I am attracted to subtle changes and unconscious signs that we barely notice, and I treat glass as a vessel to capture these. In my work, I combine the physical and symbolic properties of glass with the small realizations that lurk in our everyday lives.