Join us for the 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 independent curator Ann Shi.
Venue: Japan Foundation Los Angeles
5700 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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The exhibition unfolds in two chapters:
Movement I: Realm of Infinite Radiance 無量光界 – May 9, 2-4PM at Japan Foundation LA (5700 Wilshire Blvd)
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 – May 10, 2-5PM at a poco art (4505 S Slauson Ave, Culver City)
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.
Movement I: Realm of Infinite Radiance — saturation, light, and the force of appearance.
Presented as the first chapter of the exhibition, this movement gathers works in which ink, color, and architectural imagination unfold outward, forming a world of luminous thresholds, Buddhist cosmology, and visionary space. Here, image is not treated as a fixed object, but as a field of emergence. Color becomes atmosphere. Line becomes structure. The paper becomes a site where temples, mountains, flames, clouds, and imagined realms rise and dissolve before the eye.
The title refers to a world of boundless light: not simply brightness, but the visible intensity of form before it begins to disappear. In dialogue with Buddhist ideas of 色 / form, this first movement invites viewers into the seductive surface of image-making while quietly questioning whether anything seen can ever be fully grasped. As first movement, it begins with manifestation. Its companion chapter, Movement II: Realm of Yūgen 幽玄之境, turns inward, moving from color toward shadow, from fullness toward emptiness, from vision toward the unseen.
