MtK Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition "A Lake is a Place Where Swimming Electrons Leave Traces" by Zon Ito and Elena Tutatchikova.

Zon Ito

Born in Osaka, 1971. Currently lives in Kyoto, Japan.

Earned BFA from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1996.

Major exhibitions include "Ways of Worldmaking," The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2011; "Primary Field II”, The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama" The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Kanagawa, 2010; "Louisa Bufardeci & Zon Ito," Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, 2009,  "When Life Becomes Form: Dialogue on the Future / Brazil, Japan," Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 2008 and "Kinjo no Hate" Watari-um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2003. Major publications include  "NEW TOWN" Little More, 2006.

Elena Tutatchikova

Born in Moscow, Russia in 1984. Currently lives in Kyoto, Japan. Earned D.F.A from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Intermedia Art in 2020.
Awarded the Encouragement Prize at the VOCA Exhibition 2023, Special Photographer Award at Higashikawa International Photo Festival, Hokkaido, 2022 and  Grand Prix at Akarenga Portfolio Audition, Yokohama, 2014.
Major publications include "When an Apple Falls from a Tree, a Sound is Born" torch press, 2016 and "I Hear, Says the Wind" Ecrit, 2022.
Major solo exhibitions include "Days With the Wind," Takamatsu, 2021, "The Path Across the Peninsula," Shiretoko Peninsula, 2018, and group exhibitions include "Does the Future Sleep Here?" The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2024; "New Ecology and Art" The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, 2022; "Flower of Life, 20th Anniversary Exhibition" Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, 2022; "FACES" SCAI PIRAMIDE, Tokyo ,2021; "Land and Beyond" Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo, 2021.