RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES: Tamaki Yoshida & Kazuhiko Matsumura “Threshold — Images in Flux” 4/18–5/10
RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES presents “Threshold — Images in Flux,” a two-person exhibition by Tamaki Yoshida and Kazuhiko Matsumura, on view from April 18 to May 10, 2026. The exhibition brings together two artists who have developed their photographic practices through RPS workshops and mentorship, meeting in a single space to share their paths and their present ways of seeing. Crossing beyond the boundaries of their individual approaches, the show becomes a site for resonance and exchange.
Rather than offering a finished image or a single, fixed interpretation, “Threshold — Images in Flux” adopts an approach that extracts fragments and layers of an image and reconstruct them. Through newly produced installations, the relationship between artist, work, and viewer is reconfigured, gently unsettling the very premises of “seeing” and “understanding.”
Although Yoshida and Matsumura work with different subjects and contexts, this exhibition quietly asks what we truly need to see—and to remain attentive to. More than a simple juxtaposition, it is where two distinct practices intersect to cast new light on “boundaries” and “thresholds” that are often blurred or rendered invisible in contemporary society.
Exhibition Information
Title｜Threshold — Images in Flux
Artists｜Tamaki Yoshida, Kazuhiko Matsumura
Curator｜Yumi Goto
Venue｜RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES (603 Oimatsucho, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto)
Nearest bus stops｜Kamishichiken / Senbon Imadegawa
Dates｜April 18 (Sat) – May 10 (Sun), 2026
Closed｜None
Hours｜13:00–19:00
Admission｜Free
Contact｜paperoles@reminders-project.org
Official Instagram｜@remindersphotographystronghold
◎Opening Reception / Related Events
• Opening Reception / Artist Talk
Saturday, April 18, 2026, from 19:00
• Guest Talk
May 2026 (date and time TBA)
“Conditions of the Image — The Boundary Between Seeing and Understanding”
Speakers: Yusuke Nakanishi (Co-Director, KYOTOGRAPHIE), Kazuhiko Matsumura,Tamaki Yoshida
Moderator: Yumi Goto
Information on additional events will be updated on our website and social media channels as details are confirmed.
Curator’s Statement
“Threshold — Images in Flux” is an expressive dialogue between Tamaki Yoshida and Kazuhiko Matsumura—two artists who have pursued distinct territories in their work. Yoshida turns her attention to the borderlands between wildlife and human society, and to the traces and presences that linger in the in-between of life and death. Matsumura continues his long-term inquiry into dementia and the histories of families and communities around it—relationships, connections, and the ways they are shaped over time—and is currently extending his research toward the experience of end-of-life care.
While their themes and sites of engagement differ, both artists share a commitment to illuminating areas we assume we understand, yet often overlook. Taking as its subject the resonant uncertainty that emerges at the boundary between perception and reality, between belief and sensation, the exhibition adopts a method of extracting fragments and layers that viewers themselves assemble and recompose. It is also a space where accumulated gazes and lived experiences—gathered across different times and places—quietly answer one another.
Before a “threshold,” an image refuses to resolve. Can we ever arrive at an image that is complete and unwavering—or is that clarity itself an unattainable longing? The question becomes visible in the space as what we think we know but do not: a realm just beyond the threshold.
Yumi Goto (RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES)
Artist Profiles
Tamaki Yoshida
Tamaki Yoshida observes human presence and activity through the “mirror” of wildlife and the natural world. Her work is not simply a record of nature’s beauty; it examines how human life, thought, and emotion are reflected through our relations with other species. From these fragments of relationship, she reconsiders the structures of contemporary society and the nature of human existence itself. Rather than treating environmental issues as distant, objective phenomena, she focuses on the subtle connections embedded in everyday life—connections that are easily missed.
Recent projects include a work that uses household wastewater to develop film, tracing the continuity between daily living and so-called “nuisance wildlife” conflicts; daguerreotypes that fix roadkill at life-size scale; and projects that incorporate local materials into handmade washi paper to carry forward regional memory and history. She has presented work in the main program of KYOTOGRAPHIE and in the associate program of the Rencontres d’Arles. Working across digital and film, as well as experimental and historical photographic processes, she selects methods according to concept, weaving visual narratives shaped by the entanglement of humans and nature. Her practice moves beyond documenting tragedy, revealing unconscious human patterns of behavior and thought, while searching for the possibility of a new balance between human life and the more-than-human world.
Kazuhiko Matsumura
Born in 1980 in Himeji, Hyogo. Matsumura joined The Kyoto Shimbun as a journalist in 2003 and became a staff photographer in 2005. He has pursued long-term projects around “life,” “social security,” and “care.” His reporting on dementia has appeared in newspaper series and magazines, and in 2022 he presented the exhibition “Heartstrings” at KG+SELECT, receiving the Grand Prize. In spring 2023, he exhibited the same project at KYOTOGRAPHIE. In 2024, he became the Asia regional winner in the Open Format category of World Press Photo.
He also worked to bring the World Press Photo touring exhibition back to Japan after a hiatus since 2021, helping realize “World Press Photo Exhibition 2024 Kyoto,” held in winter 2024 at the former printing plant site in the basement of The Kyoto Shimbun building. His photobooks include “Subtle Beauty” (2014, Kyoto Shimbun Publishing Center), portraying the lives of geiko and maiko in Kyoto, and “Guru Guru” (2016, self-published), a personal work on the continuity of life through his family’s life and death. His earlier project “Elusive Rainbow” traced the history of Japan’s social security system through the life of physician Kazuteru Hayakawa. He held a solo exhibition at KG+ in spring 2019 and received an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Canon New Cosmos of Photography.
Tamaki Yoshida / Threshold — Images in Flux
Kazuhiko Matsumura / Threshold — Images in Flux
