The 15th Stone of Ryōan-ji Garden

Andrii Fisher

2026.04.02 – 05.01

The exhibition “The 15th Stone of the Ryoan-ji Garden” explores the concept of “beginning,” inviting viewers to reconsider it not as a specific moment in time, but as a state in which the boundaries between material, action, and phenomenon dissolve. The title is inspired by the famous Zen rock garden in Kyoto, where one of the fifteen stones always remains invisible from any single viewpoint. This idea becomes the foundation of the exhibition – a reminder that any process is, in essence, impossible to fully grasp.

Fisher’s practice moves away from the traditional concept of the art object and focuses instead on process. The works presented in the exhibition function as traces of events - forms that remain after an action has taken place, whose meaning emerges only through interaction and disappears once the action is complete. The exhibition reveals the evolution of the artist’s practice – from attempts to capture the underlying structures of reality to a performative approach to painting, where not only the image but the act itself becomes essential. Materials and tools operate here as neutral elements, while the artist becomes an instrument that allows the process to occur.

The exhibition does not offer a fixed narrative – instead, it invites the viewer to engage with uncertainty, to encounter the limits of perception, and to consider meaning as something fluid, contingent, and inseparable from experience.