SOZOU Studios
Jun 26 - Jul 13, 2025

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"Almost Disappearing"
Exhibition 

Engulfing the immaterial, SOZOU Studio’s works linger between the normative horizontal planes of our daily lives like a beacon of nostalgic warmth. Almost Disappearing celebrates the transience of our cosmopolitan human nature through vague impressions on our senses. More often than not we glimpse at moments in consciousness as they already pass — fleeting and beautiful, this encompasses a delicate approach within Kohtaroh & Stefano’s collaborative works.

We see an aesthetic vulnerability through the application of Australian blackwood, Japanese paper and patinated brass; an honest acceptance of our natural world in its raw conception. Alongside diverse counterparts, the familiarity of materials connects to everyone on levels unbeknown to our ocular prejudice.

What is to be perceived is a balanced impression of unbiased lighting, holding space and place in a poetic juxtaposition to the fluorescent norm. Smouldering pendants and intimately crafted paper, among humble plinths of wood, gently exudes an illuminated dissonance in SOZOU’s collection. We have found a desire, not only to remember, but to embrace the freedom in forgetting.

Words by;
Xavier Bruggeman

James Lemon 
JUL 17 - AUG 03, 2025

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Playfully perched in pursuit of connecting hearts to one another, mans best friend entangles itself within our lives as people. Unique and endearingly honest, an adventure unfolds as a furry four legged creature trots into our lives, and their triumph of an ascension beyond.

Dripping, oozing and sliding down plinths and sculptures, textural clay, glossy colour, battered metallics and reclaimed bricks form HOGERELLA. An ode to canine creatures familial bond and their human counterparts.

Conceptualised by multidisciplinary artist James Lemon, the exhibition honours the symbiotic relationship which harmoniously strengthens individuals, communities and their dogs. A caress of the clay with humble finish. Colour that softens and draws attention (and immediate affection). Through silhouettes and sculptures alike, a deviantly cheeky smile appears, an honest conversation of trust and reliance. Someone present in the darkest of days and the brightest of times.

As soft rain soaks their fur and drenches your jacket, or you both wonder through the park in a late summer haze, or the mellow breeze takes them to an eternal rest — what lingers in Lemon’s collection is omnipresent in your four legged companion. An unserious nature for the hardness of our big lives, a gentle contentment in authentic simplicity. It can be a smile, a walk, a snooze or a hug, activity or affection, movement or stillness, a single expression. The form of Lemon’s works echoing the traits of our familiar furry friends.

An epitome of loyalty, the deviantly familiar smirk at the door, an interconnectedness unlike no other, with a constantly wagging tail…