LILY NIGHT Solo Exhibition: Death is Death ｜EXHIBITIONS

LILY NIGHT Solo Exhibition:
Death is Death

2025.09.23 - 2025.10.26

September 23 (Tue/Public Holiday) – October 26 (Sun), 2025
Opening hours: 11:00-19:00 (last entry 18:45)
Closed: Mondays

＜Exhibition Outline＞
Since the moment living beings came into existence, they have been heading towards extinction through decomposition and combustion in a process that is irreversible like time. A corpse is not death itself, but creates a circuit that enables the cycle of life, and it can also be said that where the cycle of life can occur, absolute death does not exist. In the ecosystem, the creation of life circuits serves as an underlying function—a life force—that is common to various life forms and represents the fundamental and original orientation of living beings. However, there is a cycle of death, and there are forms of death that appear to be life.

In highly capitalized society—a place that also decides on various public policies related to our lives—it is the information, profitability, and power to dominate that are prioritized over life circuits. The overwhelming increase in the number of video displays in station buildings, which semi-automatically loop endlessly, appear abnormally large and violent, eroding the living space for passersby and surrounding us with nothing but our time of death. The station, which serves as a “place” where those in this society can meet and offers us a fresh starting point that delivers us to new locations, is filled with images that promote consumption and is inflated with more information than necessary.

What kind of sights are reflected in the eyes of contemporary people who share this society, this world, and this earth with various life forms, living creatures, and each other? What is visible to them? Please take a look at this new exhibition inspired by various reflections and inquiries on the status of the shared.

「status of the shared #1」 2025, Mixed media (plastic sheet, acrylic and oil paint) on paper and cardboard｜720×920×10mm

＜Artist’s Statement＞
The field of Contemporary Art struggles and thrives as it encounters aesthetics and social critique. As more categories of disciplines and styles are added, it is important to avoid falling into any justified way of thinking, where preconditions and conclusions are given and artistic expressions function as nothing more than an amplifier. Firmly anchoring myself into the use of materials and philosophy, I use drawing, photography, video, and mixed media to present a co-existing status of being. I take art practice as a potential force to break through the artificial shell of industrialization and the modernist human-centered worldview from within, and to transform people’s consumption-oriented mindset to having greater awareness and appreciation.

＜Recommender’s Comment＞
Lily Night is an artist who works with photography, drawing, and material-based practices, and her appeal lies in her sharp critical perspective on the relationship between society and the individual, seen from both within and without. I am greatly looking forward to her upcoming exhibition, which I hear will explore life and death in the face of the violence of capital.
Prof. Fumihiko Sumitomo, Graduate School of International Arts and Creativity, Tokyo University of the Arts, Art Production Major

＜Artist Biography＞

©LILY NIGHT

Master’s Program in Art Production, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Completion of the Master’s Program

Born in China, she studied in Japan and the United Kingdom and is currently based in Tokyo as an artist.

＜Past works＞

「sub-sublime #5」 2022, Mixed media (paper, acrylic paint, resin, soil) on panel｜380×250×35mm

「Untitled #5」 2021, Drawing (ink and oil paint) on paper｜297×210 mm

「Invented Spectrum #6」 2024, Mixed media (pigment, acrylic paint, resin, film, paper) on paper and cardboard｜510×370×10mm

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