Exhibition Period: December 10 (Wed) – 20 (Mon), 2025 Closed on Sundays
Venue: S-TOKYO 2F (Nihonbashi, Tokyo)
Admission: FreeYou may bring drinks purchased from Pertica Coffee on the 1st floor.
Opening Hours: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
About “ARCHive”
“ARCHive” is the gallery program of S-TOKYO.Guided by the vision of “cross-border connections and co-creation,” S-TOKYO presents a series of exhibitions created together with artists and creators from our base in Nihonbashi.
This exhibition features “Letter Exchange of Gaze,” a collaborative project by Chichi, the community curator of S-TOKYO, and Keema, a creator based in Kobe. In addition, we will present “Good News,” a small collection of letter-themed works by comic_keema.
Message from the Artists
Two women living very different lives exchanged their “gazes” through letters.Chichi, who lives and works in the city, and Keema, a creator raising a child.Their connection began by chance — as a hotel worker and a guest, two Japanese women of the same generation who happened to meet.
From this encounter, a yearlong letter exchange began.Throughout 2025, one round of letters each month was displayed at S-TOKYO.
With different lifestyles, work styles, seasons, and family structures, their lives rarely overlap — except within the slow, gentle space of their letters.Across dozens of letters, nothing dramatic happens.Instead, there is the quiet passing of time: writing about one’s own daily life, imagining the life of the other.
The ordinary days of someone else can feel like a story.Another person’s everyday life can look like a film to me.
This exhibition preserves the small truths that rise from such “ordinary lives.”
As we reach the end of 2025, we will present a small exhibition that gathers and revisits this yearlong exchange.We hope that reading these letters creates a moment where the distance between your life and someone else’s quietly melts away.
At the same time, we will show a small selection of works by comic_keema on the theme of letters.These pieces draw from fragments of written words, the blank spaces of envelopes, and the tender moments spent thinking of someone.
Letters to read, and letters to look at.Writing and drawing.The correspondence and the artworks echo each other within the space.
December is a time when we reflect on the past year and feel the urge to reach out to someone we haven’t spoken to for a while.We hope this exhibition becomes a gentle invitation to spend a little time thinking of someone dear to you.
