Les invisibles
Hitonari TSUJI

When Hitonari TSUJI paints, he first writes a word in Japanese on the canvas with charcoal. From this word, images begin to flow and gather until they become a painting. What appears on the canvas is an invisible landscape perceived through the artist’s acute vision. The exhibition presents new oil paintings and pastels. What unfolds across the canvas is the landscape of a memory beyond remembrance.

The Invisibles

"I sometimes paint landscapes I have never seen. Yet they appear with such clarity that I feel they come from a memory older than my own, perhaps inherited from distant generations. I am not painting what I remember alone ; I seek to bring forth these invisible traces that traverse time and dwell within us."

— Hitonari TSUJI

Hitonari TSUJI, born in Tokyo in 1959, is a painter, writer, and musician. He has been based in Paris since 2002. He received the Akutagawa Prize (1997) for La Lumière du détroit and the Femina Prize for Foreign Literature (1999) for Le Bouddha blanc. translated into more than ten languages. He began exhibiting his paintings in 2024. First shown in Tokyo and later in Paris, his works have been widely praised for their expressive power. He now divides his time between Paris and Normandy, where he has established his studio.