ARTDYNE is pleased to present Fusion of Vision, a solo exhibition by Ayako Ishiba, on view from Saturday, October 11 to Sunday, November 2.
Ishiba has consistently explored the relationship between “seeing” and “the image that appears on a flat surface.” In this exhibition, she presents new works that question the very act of “trying to see” by applying painterly interventions to photographic fragments of reality, thereby visualizing subtle discrepancies in perception.

When we look at a photograph, we instinctively attempt to read three-dimensional information—depth, texture, atmosphere—into the image. Ishiba intervenes on the photographic surface with drawn lines and coloration, and further incorporates striped backgrounds to evoke perceptual dissonance and visual illusion in the liminal space between two and three dimensions. The stripes disrupt the relationship between subject and space, dismantling the photograph’s inherent sense of reality. In doing so, they invite viewers to reconstruct the act of seeing itself.
Ishiba’s work functions both as a visual experiment and as a poetic inquiry that unsettles the boundary between perception and imagination.

Through this exhibition, we hope to offer viewers a visual experience that allows conscious and unconscious movement between flatness and depth—an oscillation central to Ishiba’s practice. We warmly invite you to visit and engage with this thought-provoking body of work.

Artist Statement

A photograph can be said to translate the three-dimensional (the world) into a two-dimensional (flat) plane.
When we view a photograph, we recall or imagine the circumstances of its capture—the texture of the materials, the depth of space, the surrounding air—and in doing so, we convince ourselves that what we see truly depicts the three-dimensional world.
But what happens if something that can only exist in two dimensions intervenes within what we believe to be three-dimensional? How do we then try to see the photograph before us?

In my practice, I use photographs as a base, painting or processing portions of the image so that parts of it appear overtly flat. In this exhibition, I employ striped backgrounds to create a more illusory pictorial space.
I am interested in the possibility that a flat photographic surface might nonetheless hold a sense of depth, and I seek to generate new interpretations or possibilities born from misperception in everyday life.

Ayako Ishiba