Kekkai (結界): The Space Between
Ippodo Gallery is delighted to present Kekkai: The Space Between at Design Miami, December 2-7, 2025. The exhibition investigates the Japanese concept of kekkai—a boundary, threshold, or interface. Rather than a mere division, we explore it as a critical site of interaction: a porous plane where materials, forms, and ideas encounter one another, creating a dynamic and transformative dialogue.
The curated selection of works examines the tangible and conceptual boundaries that structure our experience: between nature and artifice, tradition and innovation, solid and void. Featuring an international roster of Japanese and European artists, including Agnes Husz, KAKU, Kan Yasuda, Ken Matsubara, Kenta Hirai, Kodai Ujiie, Laura de Santillana, Lee Jae Hyo, Masahiro Maeda, Midori Tsukada, Mitsukuni Misaki, Shihoko Fukumoto, Ymer & Malta, and Yukiya Izumita.
Through a masterful and conscious engagement with materiality, each piece acts as a contemporary kekkai, framing the profound and poetic moments that occur in the liminal space where one state transitions to another. In response to a world saturated with noise and information, this exhibition constructs a necessary domain for contemplation, the essential “space between”. The collection invites a closer look at the boundaries—both visible and implied—that define, separate, and ultimately, connect.
Please click here for the Design Miami website to purchase tickets.
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