“Entangled Skin” brings together works by Kyoko Takenaka, Daniel Touff, and Heng Yi in a monochrome exhibition that asks a simple question: “where does the dust alight?”
A Zen line says, “Originally there is not a single thing—where could dust arise?” And yet dust is everywhere. It settles on skin, stone, paper. It gathers, disperses, gathers again. This exhibition treats dust not as dirt or decay, but as origin—shared matter moving through bodies, mountains, and images alike.
Drawing from Taoist thought, Zen kōans, and contemporary quantum theory, “Entangled Skin” considers the body and landscape not as separate subjects but as conditions shaped by contact and time. In quantum entanglement, particles remain connected even across distance. What appears divided still influences what it once touched. The artists extend this insight visually: skin becomes terrain; terrain reads like memory; boundaries soften.
Working in black, white, and grey, the exhibition removes color to slow perception. Across ink, drawing, photography, and video, forms emerge gradually—through layering, sediment, and atmospheric shifts. Nothing declares itself. Meaning accumulates, like dust in light.
If there is not a single separate thing, then dust does not “land” anywhere. It is already here—already this breath, this skin, this fleeting light on stone.
菩提本無樹，明鏡亦非臺；
本來無一物，何處惹塵埃。
—— 六祖慧能 Huineng (638–713), Tang dynasty, Sixth Patriarch of the Southern School of Chan (Zen) Buddhism.
If there was never a mirror, never a stand—
then tell me:
where does the dust arise?
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Featured Artists:
– Kyoko Takenaka works across performance, photography, and moving image, dissolving the boundary between body and atmosphere. Her practice positions the human figure within animal and elemental environments, where orientation destabilizes and flesh reads as terrain.
– Daniel Touff renders minerals, mountains, and natural formations in graphite and etching, collapsing psyche and geology. His monochrome landscapes treat stone as memory and sediment as consciousness. A portion of proceeds from his works will support environmental conservation nonprofits.
– Heng Yi approaches powder, ink, and particulate matter as both surface and event. Working from a Buddhist cosmological framework, he treats accumulation and dispersal as structural forces—matter as process rather than object.
Curated by Ann Shi, founder of a poco art archive, whose practice integrates Asian philosophy, mythic thinking, and contemporary material inquiry. Her exhibitions examine the body not as isolated subject but as a site of relational exchange, where landscape, memory, and matter converge.
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Opening Reception: Saturday, February 28, 2026 | 4–7pm
On view through April 26, 2026
a poco art archive, 4505 S Slauson Ave, Culver City
Press contact: ann@apoco.art
IG: @a.poco.art.collective
