Synapsis: Kim KototamaLune and Satoki Nagata at Galerie Da-End

Galerie Da-End in Paris presents Synapsis, a two-person exhibition pairing Kim KototamaLune's glass sculptures with Satoki Nagata's nocturnal street photography. The gallery's name means "oval" in Japanese, evoking circulation and infinity; its black-walled interior functions as a dark jewel box rather than a white cube. Nagata captures fleeting pedestrians in Chicago using long exposures and flash, freezing silhouettes that dissolve into luminous, anonymous urban fabric. His work channels Buddhist cosmology and questions Western notions of centered space, recalling Bill Viola's dreamlike slow motion. KototamaLune, trained in applied arts and textiles, explores cellular memory and micro-organisms. Her blown-glass piece Mémoire de l'Éden suggests an intrauterine phase, transforming liquid into solid that "forgot its molecular nature." The monumental Buddha-like form contains miniature votive objects, blending art and science, organic growth and craftsmanship. The exhibition creates subtle dialogues between volume and transparency, black-and-white imagery and glass. Critic Véronique Pittolo contextualizes the show within a French intellectual tradition seeking Eastern emptiness—citing Roland Barthes's Empire of Signs and Philippe Sollers—as a counterbalance to globalized, marketing-driven contemporary art. The show runs at Galerie Da-End in Paris.