“The uncanny is that species of the frightening that goes back to what was once well known and had long been familiar.” — Sigmund Freud’s analysis of E.T.A Hoffman’s novel The Sandman (1816)

Exploring the unknowns and limitations of his own body, Naotaka Hiro presents four types of work; paintings on wood and canvas, a video, and a bronze sculpture, which is the namesake of the exhibition. Sand-man is a cumulative visual diary of Hiro’s physical and psychological fluctuations—a map of a body’s workings as it grapples with the uncanny and the unknown.