At Parloir, six intimate works by two contemporary artists are presented, exploring the material and conceptual conditions of image-making: three small-scale paintings by Yui Yaegashi (1985, lives and works in Tokyo, Japan) and three small-scale photograms by Sophie Thun (1985, lives and works in Vienna, Austria). The sparse installation emphasizes scale and invites a slowed encounter, encouraging close viewing of works whose layered surfaces reward careful attention. 

Yaegashi’s paintings explore the fundamental properties of abstraction through chromatic variation, surface, and the interplay of flatness and depth. Often modest in scale, her works emerge from rule-based processes informed by textile structures, where predetermined systems of color, tools, and texture are gradually built up and subtly disrupted. The resulting layered compositions foreground the painting’s surface as both structure and image. 

Thun’s photographic practice likewise engages with layering and surface, examining the spatial and material conditions of analogue photography. Through staged images, photograms, and processes of printing and reprinting, her works accumulate multiple exposures, gestures, and studio fragments. The resulting photographs foreground the performative and staged nature of image-making, revealing the photographic image as constructed through successive layers of action, space, and time. 

Presented together, the works highlight two distinct yet resonant approaches to constructing images—one through the layered surface of painting, the other through the staged and layered processes of photographic production.