Numanohashi presents a two-person presentation by Toru Otani and Shiho Saito. Both artists explore how images emerge from material and surface. Otani works with found materials such as vintage packaging, postcards, and sandpaper, drawing mainly with colored pencils while responding to the patterns and traces embedded in these supports. Saito works primarily with portraiture, drawing on found images and mannequins to create figures suspended between presence and absence.

Toru Otani (b. 1988, Kanagawa) is a Tokyo-based artist. Recent solo exhibitions include En (Keijiban / Yonkai, 2024), Hypnosis (XYZ Collective, Tokyo, 2024), and spctrum (imlabor, Tokyo, 2020). He received his BFA and MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts. His works use found materials such as vintage packaging and sandpaper as supports for colored pencil drawings.

Shiho Saito (b. 1988, Tokyo) is a Tokyo-based artist. Recent exhibitions include Pictura super Pavimentum (with Miki Morioka, TOGA AOYAMA, Tokyo, 2025) and Come Come (with Fuyumi Murata, curated by Reina Sugihara, TRUST, Vienna, 2025). She received her MFA in Printmaking from Musashino Art University and creates paintings incorporating printmaking techniques on delicate supports such as Japanese washi paper.