Marcel Winatschek

Ryoichi Maeda

Ryoichi Maeda makes work that stays with you in quiet ways. His digital pieces and installations have this quality of being both extremely deliberate and somehow half-accidental—like he’s discovered something and is showing you the edges of it without explanation. You look at them once and they register. You think about them later and they register differently. There’s a precision to how he builds space, whether through video or sound or light, that suggests he understands something most of us are still learning.