Join us for an opening of Heng Yi’s solo exhibition, Sanzen Daisen Sekai 三千大千世界, presented by Japan Foundation Los Angeles and a poco art, curated by nomadic curator Ann Shi.
Venue: a poco art
4505 S Slauson Ave, Unit 317, Culver City, CA 90230
Free street parking.
The exhibition unfolds in two chapters:
Movement I: Realm of Infinite Radiance 無量光界
A passage through color, saturation, and radiance. Here, image appears as force: luminous, excessive, and unstable.
Movement II: Realm of Yūgen 幽玄之境
The second movement turns inward. Color recedes, the image becomes quieter, and visibility begins to dissolve into shadow, breath, and suspension.
The two movements follow the Buddhist axis of form and emptiness, 色 / 空. The exhibition does not ask the viewer to consume images as finished objects, but to enter the moment before they settle into certainty. Heng Yi’s ink works move between Buddhist cosmology, Zen perception, architectural imagination, and the unfinished life of the image.
Hosted at a poco art, the second movement, Realm of Yūgen, turns away from the radiant saturation of Movement I: Realm of Infinite Radiance 無量光界 (Japan Foundation LA) and enters a quieter, more elusive field of perception. Here, color recedes. The image becomes sparse, suspended, almost withheld. Ink, line, and negative space open into a state of incompletion, where forms appear only partially before dissolving back into mist, shadow, and silence.
If the first movement engages 色 / form through radiance and manifestation, the second moves toward 空 / emptiness: not as absence, but as a charged space where perception remains unfinished. In this chapter, the viewer is asked to slow down, to look without grasping, and to stay with what cannot be fully named.
Rooted in Buddhist cosmology, Zen perception, and the Japanese aesthetic of yūgen, this movement proposes the image as something that withdraws from certainty. What is most powerful here is not what appears completely, but what remains just beyond sight.
