The exhibition’s title, Suchness (真如), describes a state in which things simply are as they are. Rather than interpreting or controlling his subjects, Takagi attempts to give form to their presence, the space that arises around them, and the essence of experience.  
 
The paintings on view, all from 2026, range from intimately scaled canvases depicting sheets of rain or cloudy night skies to larger compositions focused on close-ups of exquisitely rendered objects from the natural world: stones, leaves, or the gnarls of an ancient tree trunk.

Stone, Trunk, and Moonlight push the threshold between stark reality and imagination. In these works, intricate forms emerge from velvety black backgrounds. Takagi’s organic images and landscapes are immediately recognisable and painstakingly realised, yet serve as portals to the romantic and the surreal.

As Takagi describes, his practice begins with seeing and perceiving objects as pure experience. In his work, the distinction between subject and object, inside and outside, is not fully resolved, and the world emerges as a raw and immediate presence.