New "Artists Today" Exhibition 2026: Sightlines to Saturn's Rings

Since 2016, the Yokohama Civic Art Gallery has presented the New “Artists Today”Exhibition, which carries on the spirit of the “Artists Today” Exhibition (1964–2006), a pioneering initiative in contemporary Japanese art, and exhibits the art of our own moment. The 2026 edition, with the theme of "Sightlines to Saturn’s Rings", brings together three innovative young artists. Sareena Sattapon creates video installations that employ special filters to render isolation and inequality visible, eliciting reflection on the individual, the other, and social ties. Taiki Yokote works in sculpture and video to uncover narratives embedded in easily overlooked things such as dust and debris. Rieko Tsuji confronts the difficulty of mutual understanding through dialogues with people from many walks of life, and her videos, populated by handmade stuffed toys in her recent works, hold a mirror to who we are now. Earth and Saturn orbit the sun at different distances and on different cycles, and as a result, roughly once every 15 years their geometry brings Saturn’s rings edge-on to our line of sight, rendering them nearly invisible from Earth. The way we sometimes lose sight of others can be likened to this “disappearance of Saturn’s rings.” The works of these three artists foreground things and phenomena from which we tend to unconsciously avert our eyes, and point toward ways of truly seeing others and the society we share.