ARTDYNE is pleased to present Natsuki Goto’s solo exhibition [Fragment:] from August 2 to August 31, 2025.

Giving form to the invisible forces that dwell within the everyday—this exhibition is an attempt by glass artist Natsuki Goto to make visible natural phenomena that exist all around us yet evade our direct perception, thereby introducing a subtle shift in the way we “see” the world.

Working with glass, a delicate and highly mutable material, Goto minimizes direct intervention by her own hand, instead welcoming natural phenomena themselves as her “co-creators.” For example, in the process of applying heat to suspended glass, gravity and thermal energy act directly upon the material, shaping it beyond her own intentions. Her works capture these forces in each fleeting moment of transformation, rendering them visible in physical form.

The exhibition title [Fragment:] embodies both the presentation of phenomena as fragments, and the “blank space” suggested by the typographic colon—a deliberate openness that invites each viewer to expand their thoughts freely toward nature, the world, and their own perceptions.

Goto’s works gently draw out the blind spots hidden within our senses, encouraging us to notice the “small forces” and “nameless phenomena” that often pass unseen. It is her hope that they may become a catalyst for deeper reflection.

Artist Statement

The world is formed from countless invisible fragments.

My aim is to visualize familiar natural phenomena—forces such as gravity, attraction, heat, and light—and in doing so, to subtly shift the way the world appears to us.

In my process, I suspend glass and apply heat, allowing gravity, attraction, and thermal energy to shape the form without my direct manipulation. This process itself embodies the transformation of unseen natural forces into tangible form. At the moment when a phenomenon becomes matter, a tension emerges in the sculpture—where opposing elements such as material and immaterial, stillness and motion, intersect in a fragile balance. By welcoming natural phenomena as “co-creators,” I regard the forms shaped by these forces as the essence of the work.

Through my pieces, I hope to prompt awareness of the “small fragments” that we tend to overlook in daily life, and to draw attention to their beauty. These fragments, hidden within our everyday, only take shape when perceived through our senses.

— Natsuki Goto

Biography

Natsuki GOTO

2000

Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Education

2023

B.F.A. in Monozukuri Design, Akita University of Art

2025

M.F.A. in Glass Art, Department of Crafts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts

Selected Exhibitions

2025

The 73rd Graduation Works Exhibitions, Tokyo University of the Arts
SICF26, Exhibition Section (Spiral, Tokyo)
Group Exhibition Physis and Logos: This World Is (node hotel, Tokyo)

2024

Solo Exhibition ether. (Tsubame Studio, Tokyo)
Good Design New Hope Award 2024 Exhibition (Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo)

2023

Akita University of Art Graduation Exhibition 2023

2022

Group Exhibition Good Form_Stone, Natsuki Goto, Shota Matsui, Kenichi Ishiguro, Sen Takahashi (LEE SAYA, Tokyo)

2021

3331 ART FAIR 2022 (3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo)

Awards

2025

SICF26, Exhibition Section – Audience Award, Session B

2024

Selected for Good Design New Hope Award 2024
Prize Winner, Gakuten Art Competition

2023

Kirari Mariko Hayase Encouragement Award, Akita University of Art Graduation Exhibition 2023