HECTARE
東京都渋谷区神山町40-2 1F
Shibuya, Tokyo. Japan
グループ展 「Biome」
HECTARE is pleased to present the group exhibition Biome, featuring works by Majalis Group (August Hugo and Theodor Nymark), Fukuda Shuhei, Oh Hyunseog, and Theodor Nymark.
This exhibition brings together four artists from Japan and abroad to explore the complex relationship between nature and artificiality through a post-anthropocentric perspective on time and scale.
August Hugo @augusthugo_
福田 周平 @shuhei.199431
Oh Hyunseog @ohhyunseog
Theodor Nymark @t____n97
2025. 8.8 (Fri) ー 8.31 (Sun)
13:00 - 19:00 ／ Closed on Monday, Tuesday
*Opening reception 8.8 (Fri) 18:00 - 21:00
The photographic series is a recent continuation of a body of work influenced by the Pictorialist movement of the late 19th century. This movement explored not only photography’s role in art at the time but also the ‘blurry’ or unsharp image and its relationship to themes of ecology, industry, and spirituality. The methodology of blurring the content is an intent to resist direct representation, shifting meaning from the rational toward abstraction. The framed works at Hectare for the Biome exhibition are iPhone photographs with digitally applied Gaussian blur, created during a residency at the Danish Institute in Rome. Most depict Piazza Campo de’ Fiori—literally “Field of Flowers”—which was once a meadow in ancient Rome. Although its name recalls this floral past, the square gradually evolved into a public space known for executions, commerce, and daily life.
The wall text is an excerpt from the poem A Carcass in Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), Charles Baudelaire’s seminal 1857 collection. In A Carcass (Une Charogne), the speaker recalls walking with his lover when they encounter the decomposing body of an animal. Described in vivid, almost grotesque detail, the carcass becomes a memento mori—a reminder that the lover, too, will decay. Yet her beauty and essence will live on through his poetry.
