Yaghmai takes the site of a courtyard and explores the public-private binary through a psychedelic lens. The Courtyard is a site for internal contemplation at the same time an environment exposed to the public eye. It is a performative space in which there is a back and forth relationship between the artist and the audience intended to cultivate a psychological narrative.Kawaguchi established himself as a key figure in the postwar Japanese avant-garde by co-founding Group “i” (meaning “unit”), a collective that sought to eliminate emotion and subjectivity from their work in favor of an “impersonal,” cerebral art. Although Kawaguchi’s practice has evolved in myriad ways over the intervening decades, it is still largely driven by themes he began investigating in the 1960s: removing his ego and influence from the art-making process; reaching viewers through thoughts and concepts rather than sentiment; and visualizing what is normally considered invisible.