Eisaku Chinda “Record”

July 9th (Thursday) - August 5th (Tuesday), 2025
9:00 - 16:00 (open daily)

Eisaku Chinda “Record”
Dates: July 9th (Thu) - August 5th (Tue) 2025 9:00 - 16:00 Open daily
venue ：OM Art × Music (8th floor, 735-3 Higashishiokojicho, Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture)
Organizer ：OM Art x Music Gallery

This is the artist's third photo exhibition. It is a reorganization of the works from his photo exhibition in Kyoto in June 2024, adding newly photographed masterpieces.

Perhaps because he once became seriously ill and was in the intensive care unit of a hospital, where he was conscious of "death," he often feels that he is more sincere about living than anyone else. And he continues to create works every day, mainly in Kyoto, in the hope that they may one day become a source of salvation for someone.

That I exist here now.
Having someone next to you.

Are you savoring the happiness in front of you?
Are you able to cherish the person in front of you?
Do you tend to forget this in your busy everyday life?

This is the record of the life of a writer who has decided to live his life once again.

Gallery Tosei Nao Noguchi

Two years have passed since then.

He suffered a myocardial infarction on June 1, 2022.

At 2am, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my back and woke up with difficulty breathing. I thought this was bad and I was going to die, but I had an important matter to attend to this afternoon and I couldn't miss it, so I persevered and decided to go to the hospital first thing in the morning.

"I can't die here, I can't die," he muttered as he arrived at the hospital in the early afternoon, where he underwent surgery immediately. Although he survived, one-third of his heart had become necrotic. There was a blood clot at the tip of his heart, and he had to remain in complete bed rest.

Even while conscious of his own death in the ICU, all he could think was, "If I survive, I'll create a work of art. I'll live my life doing what I love."

On the day I was discharged from the hospital, my doctor told me, "You have jumped over the River Sanzu and come back to this side, so live your life with that in mind."

I went outside. I was in Nishi-Shinjuku, an area lined with skyscrapers. It had been a long time since I had breathed fresh air, not recycled air. I felt truly alive.

For the next few months, I continued going to the hospital and undergoing rehabilitation while working, but one day I lost my job. It made me think, "Ah, this is okay." "It means I can do what I love."

Then, I decided to move to Kyoto to try living away from Tokyo, and as I walked around the city every day with my camera hanging from my arm, I would occasionally feel a beautiful, enveloping light in the ordinary streets and everyday life, as if it was telling me "that's fine" or "so not bad," like the realizations I get in a foreign land, and these are the works I have compiled by recording those twinkling moments. I would be delighted if you would take a look.

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