In the second-floor living space above the first-floor white cube, there spreads a different type of atmosphere created by the artist; the atmosphere which would merge with, or perhaps repel from, the real world. At Nroom artspace, two different kinds of art works will be displayed in the two different floors.
The floors will be given its own setting; the ‘paradigm.’ Paradigm, although it sounds quite a big word, is what Kabata regards as the development in her former solo exhibitions, ‘Schwarzwald Metric’ (September 2009, artlantico gallery) and ‘UNUNITY’ (October 2009, youkobo art space), and here Kabata intends to exchange the techniques between ballpoint pen and oil painting. ‘Schwarzwald Metric’ is a series of ballpoint pen works produced under a clear statement of looking for the locations of invisible images. ‘UNUNITY’ displays oil paintings which represent the act of image-searching including the suspicion about their locations. These two concepts held for the exhibitions confront with one another, although they are essentially not far from each other.
Kabata captures the images to be expressed as invisible objects. In the previous two exhibitions, the media of ballpoint pen and oil painting completed each approach corresponding with the dual aspects of looking for and suspecting the locations of images.

Those will be exchanged in this exhibition. In accordance with the switching of techniques, approaches towards the goal would eventually be altered. This will attract, or perhaps repel, the two.These two paradigms will interrelate beyond the floors, and will be merged by the audience physically visiting each area. What you will see at the end of the exhibition would be different from those you saw at the beginning. Walking through these two spheres would shift the paradigms within the audience himself.
- Chihiro Kabata