Kitties, we will meet here, again, when the time comes is a site-specific photographic installation by Yohei Abe, developed from his first monograph Ghosts Angels Beyond Light. The monograph emerged from a period of profound rupture and listening, bringing together photography, poetry, and an evolving musical component as an exploration of memory, absence, and transformation. Drawing from myth and literature—including Orpheus and Eurydice, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus—the project adopted the structure of a journey, tracing the movement between longing and return, presence and disappearance.

In this exhibition, selected works from the monograph are reconfigured within the spatial and temporal conditions of the gallery. Rather than functioning as illustrations of the book, the photographs are installed as moments of address—images that operate as signals across distance and time. Meaning unfolds through pacing, proximity, and interval, allowing the viewer to encounter the works as part of a shared, open-ended passage rather than a fixed narrative.

The exhibition proposes the gallery as a threshold space: a place where memory, perception, and the possibility of encounter coexist. If the monograph gathers fragments into a constellation, this installation creates a ritual site in which those fragments are experienced physically, through movement and duration. Here, photography becomes less an object to be observed than a medium through which attention is held, suspended, and gently redirected toward what remains unfinished.

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