Fergus McCaffrey Tokyo

Swiss-born Urs Fischer has built an international reputation through a practice that destabilises conventional distinctions between permanence and decay, authenticity and illusion, and high art and popular culture, often through works that are at once playful and disquieting. At Fergus McCaffrey Tokyo, ‘Machigai Sagashi – Spot the Difference’ unfolds as a spatial and psychological investigation structured across two contrasting levels of the gallery. On the upper floor, a pair of monumental self-portrait sculptures, part of Fischer’s ‘Candle’ series, stand in mirrored rooms, slowly melting over the course of the exhibition. Their gradual deformation, culminating in eventual recasting, stages a cycle of dissolution and renewal that resists fixed identity. Below, the sub-basement transforms into an immersive environment of visual disorientation. Walls, floors and ceilings are enveloped in a Rorschach-like pattern of holes and repairs, while bronze sculptures and drawings invite viewers to decipher subtle variations, echoing the titular game. Blending conceptual rigor with absurdity, the exhibition probes the instability of perception and the fragmented nature of the self, inviting viewers into a shifting field where meaning is constantly in flux.