nca | nichido contemporary art

Date: 11.5 (wed.) – 12.25 (thu.), 2025
Gallery hours: Tue. – Sat. 11:00 – 19:00 (Closed on Mon., Sun., and National Holidays)
Opening reception: 11.8 (sat.) 17:00 – 19:00 (artist in attendance)

nca | nichido contemporary art is pleased to present Threads: Vik Muniz a solo exhibition of new work by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz. Marking Japan’s debut of Muniz’s new series, Threads, the exhibition features images - made especially for this show - which draw on Japanese culture. A kimono shop, an ikebana vase, commuting salarymen, these are just a few examples of what we could interpret as Muniz’s personal visual homage to a country he has come to know and love over the past 30 years. Assembled through the crossed use of different AI programs, this new body of work represents Muniz’s investigation and take on what is considered a rather controversial and sensitive topic. These are tools that, to borrow Muniz’s own words, “we developed to improve our relation with reality”, hence the question we cannot escape: how indeed has this relation been impacted by all this?
Yet, Muniz simultaneously turns to something very tactile and real, which is the use of the ancient craft of embroidery through a collaboration between the artist and a group of Brazilian embroiders, giving an abstract texture to the images, and creating all the while a striking contrast with the use of the latest technologies.