Expose ～10 consecutive days of public production by ~IYOTA JIMMY, Shohei Kato, and Ahito Narishima

This exhibition aims to fundamentally explore creativity in contemporary art and dynamically analyze its generative process. It features three artists specializing in different expressive domains: Shohey Kato, who delves into the depths of perceptual phenomena through meticulous observation of daily minutiae and precise color composition; Ahito Narishima, who attempts to expand existing artistic concepts and create new perceptual experiences through the combination of disparate materials; and heARTbeat psychoman (IYOTA JIMMY), who illuminates the fluidity of information, body, and identity in contemporary society by using diverse media in a cross-sectional and improvisational manner. The exhibition sets up an experimental situation of a continuous 10-day open studio production.

This endeavor provides an opportunity to comprehensively examine not only the final form of the artwork but also the mechanisms leading to its creation, the process of conceptual formation, and the cognitive and physical transformations of the producing subject. Visualizing the production process during the exhibition period will reveal the interconnectedness of the artist's thinking and practice, which has been invisible until now, and suggest the possibility of a new interpretation of artworks that focuses on the process, as opposed to the conventional appreciation centered on the finished product.

This exhibition pursues its academic and social significance as a case study that comprehensively examines the mechanisms of production and the transformation of the subject in contemporary art. Through this, we believe it will add a new perspective to the framework of art and become a place to deepen the understanding of creativity.

IYOTA JIMMY / heARTbeat psychoman: A portrait of a man with long dreadlocks, wearing sunglasses and a patterned shirt. He has a relaxed and expressive demeanor.

加藤笑平 Showhey Kato: A photograph showing a collection of artworks made from found objects and natural materials. There are painted pieces, wooden constructions, and arrangements of various items, suggesting a process-oriented and assemblage-based artistic practice.

鳴島充人 Ahito Narishima: A close-up photograph of a textured artwork made from what appears to be natural materials like wood and possibly bone or shell fragments. The work has an organic and somewhat mysterious quality.
Artist Information:

IYOTA JIMMY (heARTbeat psychoman): A nomadic, borderless homeless artist and expresser born in Kitakyushu in 1977. He works across various media including monochrome, color, acrylics, and photography. His works, known for their vivid colors and uninhibited energy, shake perception. Drawn to the organic forms and vitality of nature, he independently explores his unique expression. The canvases where saturated colors and organic forms intersect hint at primal messages that act on the subconscious, activating emotions and memories.
Showhey Kato: Born in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo in 1983. He has lived in Amakusa City, Kumamoto (from 2005), Fukuoka City, Fukuoka (from 2013), and currently in Kabashima Town, Nomozaki, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki (since 2020). He ran the Amakusa Local Museum from 2006 to 2013 and has been running the Kabashima Storehouse since 2023. He creates paintings by combining waste materials and natural objects, and extending from or based on these are installations made of waste materials, within which he develops and rearranges performances. His performances involve simultaneously unfolding actions using everyday occurrences, things everyone can touch, and what he currently possesses, leading to a kind of solemn atmosphere or space, which is then cleaned up at the end.
Ahito Narishima: A visual artist born in Tsushima City, Nagasaki Prefecture on April 15, 1998. He completed his Master's degree in Art Studies at Kyushu Sangyo University Graduate School in March 2023 and joined the management of art space tetra [Fukuoka] in 2025. Based primarily in Tsushima, Nagasaki, he traces the remnants of people and their beliefs that once certainly existed in those places. With themes of what is faith, what is life, and what is awe, he creates work to visualize the invisible.
Exhibition Events:

Showhey Kato Performance:
Date: Friday, May 2nd
Time: 19:00 start (18:30 open)
Participation Fee: 1,000 yen + 1 drink order
Opening party for the exhibition, featuring a performance by participating artist Showhey Kato.
Irregular events will be held during the exhibition period. Details will be updated on social media, etc.
Ahito Narishima "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons (Hyakki Yagyō)":
Date: Saturday, May 10th - Night of May 11th
Venue: Fukuoka City - Fukuhama Beach (details on social media)
Goal: Seeking 100 participants and awaiting permission from the fire chief (likely to be approved). Participants are asked to bring one piece of driftwood and walk from various locations in Fukuoka City to Fukuhama Beach (videographers are being commissioned to film the procession). Ultimately, participants will burn the driftwood and any artworks they wish to offer in a bonfire at Fukuhama Beach. Narishima will cut and burn his hair. Driftwood will be distributed during the exhibition period starting from May 2nd.
Note: Event will be canceled in case of rain or strong winds. Alternative event undecided.
Information:

Organizer: art space tetra
Planning: Takashi Jono
Contact: mooktank1983@gmail.com
Access: 5-minute walk from Nakasu-Kawabata Station on the Fukuoka City Subway Airport Line.