In a reception celebrated with sake and handmade onigiri, the San Francisco gallery Glass Rice opened Osato/Quiet Conversations, a duo presentation of work by Maya Fuji and Shingo Yamazaki, in late October. The exhibition features delicate paintings by each artist, in addition to an immersive VR recreation of Fuji’s grandmother’s house in Kanazawa, Japan.

Osato/Quiet Conversations represents a soft gaze inward and backwards in search of home, or “osato,” the Japanese term for a person’s hometown or upbringing. In the exhibition, Fuji and Yamazaki both explore the remaking of memories held within familial spaces. Mundane objects like house slippers, Pokémon cards and tissue boxes act as quiet elements that both evoke memory and give it texture.

Fuji, for instance, uses family oral history

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