Coordinates of Wings, Lattice of Fur 翅之坐标，毛之格子
Hunsand Space Tianmuli 捨萬空間 天目里
杭州 Hangzhou
2026 Sep 12- Nov 1
Coordinates of Wings, Lattice of Fur
Hunsand Space (Hangzhou) is pleased to present Coordinates of Wings, Lattice of Fur, a solo exhibition by Japanese artist KAITO Itsuki, opening on September 12, 2026. The exhibition brings together more than ten paintings created over the past two years and will run through November 1.
The two images in the exhibition title form a delicate philosophical counterpoint. “Coordinates of Wings” points to the hidden order that individuals follow as they become “human” within the social sphere—a procedural system through which identities are formed and social roles are assumed. At the other end of these coordinates lies a reverse movement: a return, in spaces that are entirely private and free from social surveillance, to the “non-human”—beast, insect, or a more primal perceptual subject. “Lattice of Fur” pushes this inquiry further: beneath the layers of social masks, in what form does a “non-human” nature that has never been fully tamed persist? Here, fur is not merely a biological structure of protection, but a metaphor for the final boundary of wildness that the subject retains to shield its deeper vulnerabilities. The term “lattice,” drawn from biological discourse, evokes cellular structures, suggesting that this nature is not an abstract spiritual residue, but an almost innate organizational pattern inscribed into the very texture of the flesh. Together, these two images trace a complex terrain in which the self is continually transformed, adjusted, disguised, and allowed to leak through its relationships with others and with social structures.
KAITO Itsuki’s practice has consistently revolved around the dual nature of human beings—the ongoing entanglement, negotiation, and conflict between the social and the biological. In recent years, the narrative focus of his paintings has shifted in several ways: from indirect fetishistic projections toward a more direct engagement with the field of interpersonal relations; and from psychological models of behavioral conditioning toward the instinctive counterforce of inner animality. This exhibition focuses on moments of “transformation”—both the performative moments in which the self conceals and adapts itself under the pressures of universal values and social discipline, and the liberating instants in which, within spaces of absolute privacy, those constraints are shed and the body returns to a more primal state. Human- shaped butterflies perched on bodies and hairy monkeys clinging to lattices mark these thresholds of transformation in forms that are at once unruly and ambiguous.
Contemporary society, to be sure, has developed an unprecedented tolerance for individual expression. Yet beneath the deeper logic of civilizational order, private desires, fantasies, and primal impulses still encounter forms of invisible suppression.
It is precisely this limit of suppression that Kaito Itsuki’s work approaches—the fissures through which the non-human begins to leak through. Fluorescence glows in the darkness; fur emerges beneath the skin; forms blur within an immense, invisible web, becoming muddy and viscous. Chaos is the counterpart to order, just as shadow conspires with light. A world of wholeness must accommodate reason and sensibility, light and darkness, cultivation and the wild. What KAITO Itsuki repeatedly depicts is this long-obscured realm of convergence, as well as the possibility that, within it, the subject might briefly recover a sense of wholeness.
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