GALLERY MoMo

GALLERY MoMo Projects (Roppongi) is pleased to present “Day after day,” a solo exhibition by Tokuro Sakamoto, on view from October 18 (Sat) to November 22 (Sat), 2025.
Born in Yamanashi in 1975, Tokuro Sakamoto graduated from the Department of Japanese Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1999. Departing from traditional mineral pigments, he chose acrylic paint as his medium, developing a distinctive visual language for depicting contemporary landscapes and scenes from everyday life. His carefully layered acrylic brushwork on hemp paper conveys both tranquility and warmth, evoking sensations of light, air, and memory.
Sakamoto observes both natural and man-made elements with equal attentiveness, extracting rhythms, repetitions, and traces of time from the everyday and reconstructing them within his compositions. Though his motifs are representational, his paintings possess a quiet abstraction, inviting viewers to project their own memories and emotional landscapes onto the scene. Across his works, he continues to capture fragments of daily life imbued with the subtle presence of human existence—depicting spaces where people are absent, yet their traces and atmosphere linger.
As the artist reflects, “I am more interested in those unnoticed passages of time than in dramatic events,” and “I seek to depict the subtle fluctuations and quiet flow of time that emerge through the accumulation of our daily experiences,” Sakamoto presents new works that focus on these delicate shifts and transformations brought about by the passage of time in this exhibition. His recent paintings explore the layering of time and its quiet changes, deepening in abstraction while gently touching the viewer’s own sense of memory and perception—offering a moment to rediscover the beauty of the everyday.
We warmly invite you to experience “Day after day.”

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Artist Comment
As we go about our daily lives, it may seem as though we are seeing the same scenery over and over again, yet we can never encounter the exact same moment twice. Each moment occurs only once and accumulates to form what we call our everyday memories.
In my practice, I am more interested in those unnoticed passages of time than in dramatic events.
This exhibition, “Day after day,” seeks to depict the subtle fluctuations and quiet flow of time that emerge through the accumulation of our daily experiences.

Tokuro Sakamoto, 2025