Felix 2026
The Fridge at Felix Art Fair 2026
February 26th to March 1st
Los Angeles
We are happy to announce our participation in this year’s edition of Felix Art Fair which will take place at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. VIP day on Wednesday, February 25th, 11am to 8pm and Public Days from February 26th to March 1st, 11am to 7pm (5pm on the 1st). You will find us Booth/Room # 1106. We will hold a Group Show including the works of Ayako Sakuragi, Kazuma Koike and Joji Nakamura.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1978, Ayako Sakuragi studied French literature at Sophia University in Tokyo, then fashion design at Studio Berçot in Paris. After working for eleven years at Comme des Garçons, she returned to artistic studies. She received her Master’s degree from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2021 and graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (DNSAP) in 2022.
She was a finalist for The Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents in 2024, as well as for the Sisley Prize of the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2025. Her work 108 Days is part of the collection of the ARTER Museum (Istanbul). She is currently pursuing a Doctorat de création at the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles. She is also an artist in residence at La Capsule – Résidence Création Photo in Le Bourget, and continues her practice and experiments between Paris and Arles.
For her, the camera is a device of non-human perception: devoid of consciousness and intention, it arbitrarily cuts out a fragment of space-time. This gesture can make us see the world differently. It is not about representation, but about revelation. What interests her is neither form nor content, but the subtle relationship between existence, invisibility and perception. Her work explores the boundaries of the image and highlights the importance of invisible elements: time and memory.
KAZUMA KOIKE
Born in 1980 and lives in Osaka, Japan.
Koike spent his childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, attended high school in Barcelona, Spain, and graduated from the Department of Sculpture, College of Art at Nihon University in Tokyo. The works of Spanish sculptor Josép Clarà has inspired him to follow suit. Growing up in a multi-cultural environment, Koike is interested in “Shinbutsu-Shugo”, a mix between Japan's native Shinto beliefs and Chinese Buddhism. Koike visited numerous temples where their architecture, gardens, and sculptures became his inspiration.
Koike started his first attempt of deconstructionism sculpture by compiling various dismantled found objects, removing their physical meaning, and reforming them into a sculpture. In the recent decade, Koike created most artworks by mixing images from different space and time, creating “fictional ancient artifacts” as if they do not belong to any era of the recorded history. Motifs of divinity, big cats, plants and pineapples repeatedly appears in Koike’s works, such as the tiger paintings of Japan's Edo period — there was no tiger in Japan at that time. Tiger paintings then were imaginary creatures made with reference to chinese paintings, furs brought back and cats. Koike always aims at the state where “different elements coexist in harmony”. He once joked that future scholars from 2000 years later will discover a whole new culture from his buried works.
The artist attempts to present his works as if they were found objects, hence his creations are mostly spontaneous. Black clay and special black glaze are applied to simulate the color of traditional Japanese tea sets. Most of Koike’s sculptures are titled in codes — “BC” stands for “Black Clay”, and numbers are the date finished modeling - Koike avoids any narrative in the work titles, so that one could interpret his work from a more detached perspective purely on the basis of its physical form.
Koike's notable recent shows include Cadet Capela (Paris, 2023), OMURO MUSEUM (Mie, 2021), two-person Shows at Aishonanzuka Gallery with Jordy Kerwick (Hong Kong, 2024), and with Djordje Ozbolt (Hong Kong, 2023), as well as HAGD Contemporary with Henrik Godsk (Aalborg, 2023)
JOJI NAKAMURA
Nakamura’s practice moves between recognizable figures and abstract forms. Recurring motifs and soft, cloud-like color shifts define his language. His imagery emerges instinctively from the gestures he has developed over the past 15 years. The paintings follow a consistent format shaped by his ongoing process. Through his daily, almost ritual practice, he introduces new elements while keeping a clear continuity in his work.
Born in 1974, Joji Nakamura currently lives and works in Yokohama, Japan. Joji Nakamura paints with his hands using acrylic, gesso, graphite and ink on canvas. His extruded faces are instantly recognizable. Nakamura’s dynamic strokes transform into his own rendition of a classic portrait, a figure painting or a surreal landscape created with his body. He has held exhibitions in Paris, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Japan and the US. For the past few years, Nakamura added colors to the monotone repertoire paintings of his early years, presenting portraits in soft blotchy hues. Past recent shows include Kaplan Projects in Mallorca, Zieher Smith in Nashville, Galerie Mikiko Fabiani in Paris, Scooters For Peace in Tokyo and The Fridge in New York.
THE FRIDGE
11 East 78th Street Fourth Floor
New York, NY