The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès presents "Visitors," a two-person exhibition by Christian Hidaka (b. 1977 in Noda; lives and works in London) and Takeshi Murata (b. 1974 in Chicago; lives and works in LA). Hidaka develops what he calls an “Eurasian” mode of crafting images: a hybrid spatial structure combining the chiaroscuro technique of Western tradition with the oblique perspective of Asian art. Hidaka has explored parallels between painting and theater, depicting a bizarre cosmos in which various elements old and new, Eastern and Western, coexist within a nested trompe l’oeil structure. Meanwhile, Murata has been pursuing his own unique mode of realism using various digital mediums and techniques, from animation to NFT. For Murata reality is fluid, akin to the “dissolves” that produce effects of decay, dissolution, annihilation, and superimposition in CGI. The two artists beckon us into different dimensions of reality, deploying their unique brands of wizardry to deliver both the real and the fictional that we seek in art.