Life Is Art Is Motherhood Is Art Tokyo Artist Talk & Reception

Please join us for a reception for the Life Is Art Is Motherhood Is Art exhibition on May 10, 2026, from 3 – 5 pm at Le Déco Gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo. Light refreshments will be served. During the reception, from 3:30 – 4:30 pm, there will be a conversation in Japanese with exhibition artist Satomi Shirai, curator Christopher Pelham, and moderator Sayaka Takahashi, Gallery Director of PGI, about the exhibition’s core themes. Reframing “motherhood” as a lived threshold—emerging between the private and the public, child-rearing and self-care, the body and the environment—the conversation will consider how parenting can be understood as a creative path.

You can learn more about the exhibition, which was first shown last year in New York City and then earlier this spring as a Pick Up exhibition of Kyotographie KG+, here.

About Moderator Sayaka Takahashi
Gallery Director/ PGI
Sayaka Takahashi (based in Japan) is the director of PGI. She studied under the photography critic HIRAKI Osamu at Waseda University. In 1998, she participated in the Higashikawa International Photo Festival as a volunteer, and from this experience, she developed an interest in curating, conservation, and installation. That same year she began working in the field of photography at PGI, a celebrated gallery in Tokyo founded in 1976, in its department of conservation, framing, and installation. Between 2003 and 2010, she worked for the Higashikawa International Photo Festival as an assistant director. Since 2010, she has been the director of PGI, and she has worked with many of the most celebrated postwar photographers, in particular Yasuhiro Ishimoto and Kikuji Kawada. She is placing emphasis on introducing Japanese photography to the world and on finding new talent.