ATLA is pleased to present a two-person exhibition with Amia Yokoyama and Rina Matsudaira.

Bringing together two materially distinct yet conceptually resonant practices, the exhibition considers contemporary image-making as a site of transformation, memory, and shifting perception across time and
form.

Through ceramic sculpture and experimental animation, Los Angeles–based Amia Yokoyama builds mythic, evolving worlds in which image, material, and body continually shift and reconfigure one another—where material histories and contemporary identities fold into one another through processes of metamorphosis. Working between
ceramics, holographic imagery, and sculptural support structures, she constructs interconnected systems in which figures appear, dissolve, and re-emerge across fragments. Rather than rupture, her work proposes a logic of regeneration, where images persist through variation, repetition, and material transformation.

Drawing on the techniques, materials, and philosophical frameworks of Nihonga, Kyoto-based Rina Matsudaira situates painting within a longer lineage of Japanese pictorial thought, from classical landscape traditions to modern institutional formations. Her figurative works center on the idea of “imagining the other,” approaching the limits of knowledge and perception as a generative space rather than a fixed boundary. In layered compositions where multiple timelines and perspectives intersect, Matsudaira turns toward the overlooked figures embedded within history, folklore, and collective memory, reexamining the ethics of representation from within the language of painting itself.

Together, the artists propose parallel but distinct modes of engaging image, body, and narrative—opening a space in which transformation is understood not only as formal change, but as a sustained inquiry into how meaning is constructed across time, material, and perception.