The Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka and the Kansai Osaka 21st Century Association present a solo exhibition by up-and-coming photographer Akashika Maya as the first show in the Osaka Directory series.

Akashika's practice includes showing her work through installations with photos of various sizes floating in a space, making the methods used in her creative process overt by exhibiting items such as memos and test prints. Her work mixes photos in which she directs friends working as her models with snapshots taken in the city. When she shows situations crafted as a scene and natural situations in which the subject doesn’t know he or she is being photographed in an ambiguous way, the artist discovers a sense of reality possessed by things that don’t actually exist, comparable to a dream or ghost. Examining Akashika’s photos and trying to discern what they capture, viewers sense hints of ‘something’ there that can’t actually be seen.

In addition to past works, the exhibition presents new works shown for the first time.