Line, Gesture, Memory - Catherine Danou & Hiroko Takeda

​This exhibition brings together the works of Catherine Danou and Hiroko Takeda, two artists whose practices, though rooted in different geographies and mediums, share a deep engagement with structure, rhythm, and the meditative power of repetition. At the intersection of gesture, textile, and language, both artists investigate the ways in which material and thought weave into one another—literally and metaphorically.

​Catherine Danou’s paper works, often reduced to essential lines and textures, evoke a silent writing—marks of time, breath, and mental architecture. Her compositions unfold like manuscripts without words, shaped by gesture, pause, and resonance.

​Hiroko Takeda, creating handwoven textiles, explores a similar grammar of construction. Her works are built from threads and intervals, a choreography of warp and weft that reveals tension, space, and nuance.

​What connects them is not simply a shared interest in surface or material, but a philosophy of making: one that values slowness, sensitivity, and attention. Together, their works create a quiet yet powerful dialogue—between the drawn and the woven, the visible and the sensed, the deliberate and the intuitive.

​By placing their practices side by side, the exhibition invites viewers to read form as language, and material as a form of thought in motion.