EXHIBITION

18th December 2025 - 19th January 2026

Star FragmentsKasumi Osada

Since childhood, I have found myself picking up stones and bringing them home. Even as an adult, I continued to collect them almost unconsciously. When I looked at these stones beyond my own memories and emotions—simply as they are—I experienced a quiet sense of connection between the inner and the outer, the self and the world. Through the act of photography, “touching the world” became a process that felt like being born anew.

Stardust is an attempt to deepen my gaze and dive into questions of existence and time through stones. The patterns and marks inscribed on their surfaces resemble wrinkles or bruises on skin, traces of some unknown moment. As the boundary between macro and micro gradually fades, it becomes unclear whether what I am seeing is a stone, a human being, or someone’s memory. In the process of those contours dissolving, separate things begin to appear as though they are gently resonating with one another from afar. While tracing the tangible traces of “now” that photography scoops up, I continue to gaze at the fundamental form of what it means “to exist.”

For this exhibition, in addition to traditional photographic prints, I am presenting works using the wet plate collodion process (ambrotype) for the first time. By layering prints beneath the glass plates on which the images are fixed, the 19th-century medium—one that inherently resists reproduction—echoes the singularity of the stones themselves and makes my perspective more distinctly visible. It also serves as a way of quietly approaching the presence of the stones.

From the viewpoint of the universe, stones, human beings, and memories may all be unique entities drifting within the same cycle, like particles of stardust. Stardust is a series born from that cycle—one that will continue to change shape as it evolves. What you see here is one momentary form along that ongoing path.

Kasumi Osada
Born in Shizuoka, Japan, in 1991. Photographer based in Tokyo. She began taking photographs at the age of 14, and today her work spans portraiture, fashion, artist photography, and book cover imagery.

Solo exhibitions include:
You Will Never Become Transparent Again (Shimokitazawa Art Space, Tokyo, 2014)
The Night Continues Now (Mitaka Yume-no-Gallery, Tokyo, 2016)
An Ordinary Dream (Alt_Medium, Tokyo, 2019)
An Ordinary Dream (es quart, Tokyo, 2022)

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