Light Relay

Kyoko Hamaguchi

Tenesh Webber

curator

Alex Rojas

Open to the public:

Thursday, April 24 - Friday, June 13, 2025

Open hours:

Monday - Friday, 11am - 5pm

Opening reception:

Thursday, April 24, 6-8pm

Project: ARTspace is pleased to present Light Relay, curated by Alexandra Rojas, an exhibition of works by two photographers, Kyoko Hamaguchi and Tenesh Webber. Each artist uses the materials of photography: black and white paper, photo emulsion, and darkroom chemistry, in non- traditional ways, to create multi-layered abstract imagery. Hamaguchi creates objects that cross boundaries between photographs and sculptural objects, Webber makes photograms; camera-less black and white photographs.

The creation of matrixes is a key aspect of each artist’s work: Hamaguchi creates a pin hole camera that is processed in darkroom chemistry and becomes both a photograph and a sculptural object. Webber creates sculptural objects in the studio out of thread and woven paper, that are then printed in a black and white darkroom. Both artists reconsider how a photograph can be made. Hamaguchi “prints” her entire camera, Webber makes use of darkroom happenstance and incorporates these into her print-making process.

The balance between choice and chance is key to both Hamaguchi’s and Webbers work. They use chance-based practice as a formal artistic process, it is an integral part of their practice.  The use of light, photographic chemistry and the artist’s hand have added another dimension to the conversation around chance-based practice.

Bios

Tenesh Webber is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist who is dedicated to exploring abstract and conceptual forms through photography, and drawing. She has exhibited her work widely, including solo exhibitions at Yossi Milo Gallery, and Margaret Thatcher Projects in New York City, and Mercer Union in Toronto, Canada. Her work has been included in group exhibitions, nationally and internationally including at Rick Wester Fine Art, and Art Cake, in New York City, and Abstract Project, Paris, France.  Webber is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including two MacDowell Fellowships, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Visual Arts Award, two Canada Council Grants, and a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Photography Fellowship. Webber was educated at OCAD University and Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Canada.

Kyoko Hamaguchi, born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, is a conceptual mixed-media artist who lives and works in New York City. By utilizing her daily experiences and communication systems she is constantly searching for ways to invent transient images and shapes to reflect her ever-shifting perspective as an immigrant. She holds an MFA from Hunter College, New York (2020) and a BFA from Tokyo University of the Arts (2015). She has shown in numerous group exhibitions including at Off Paradise, Dinner Gallery, and Neue House, New York; The Florence Trust, London; ACC, South Korea; Art Intelligence Global, Hong Kong; Museum of Modern Art and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan. She has had solo exhibitions at ATM Gallery, New York; KOKI ARTS, Tokyo; and F2T Gallery, Milan.

Colombian born artist, cultural activist, and independent curator Alexandra Rojas lives and works in the Lower East Side of New York. Rojas is a multimedia artist, whose work has been shown internationally. Her work can be found in The Library of Congress, Rare Books, Washington, D.C., Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Fales Library, New York University, New York. Rojas is co-director of Bullet Space an urban artist collaborative. Her work has been reviewed in Saatchi & Saatchi Magazine, Vice, M Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail and White Hot Magazine. Rojas was included The American Dream: The Latino Experience in America, at Belskie Museum of Art & Science INC, Closter, NJ, and she was artist in residence at KinoSaito in Verplanck, NY.

Founded in 2011, Project: ARTspace is an interdisciplinary creative project space. Our organization programs events and exhibition where curators and artists of all levels have the chance to meet, engage and promote new collaborative projects.

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