This first solo exhibition by Sayaka Uchino, “six rooms,” conveys a strong feeling that one is viewing a peculiar story. Though her works seem to be telling meaningful stories, they all make elusive escapes. Yet when one thinks that the story is about to vanish into thin air, it slowly begins to convey what appears to be a cohesive story. Uchino once mentioned that it would be interesting if she could see other people’s dreams. In actuality, she has created her works based on the visualization of dreams that her friends and acquaintances have seen. But since Uchino is the one visualizing those people’s dreams, the works inevitably contain her arbitrary decisions; thus, the dreams are not entirely those of others. On the contrary, midway through the process of creating her work, “his” or “her” image/dream already begins to seem like that of her own. Dreams are like a torrent of incoherent images that we repeatedly continue to experience in the pitch-darkness of our own minds, which we timid human beings envision as we earnestly live in a universe where myriads of incidents ceaselessly occur. As we stand before Uchino’s works, we begin to realize how unreliable dreams in fact are, as well as how precious they are; hence, her works touch a special chord in our hearts.