House of Seiko

About the Gallery
Founded in 2022, House of Seiko takes its name from a fifty-year-old watch dealership that previously operated in the gallery’s founding space. In 2024, the gallery expanded to Los Angeles, continuing its mission to present emerging artists whose practices echo and reinterpret the visual and cultural legacies of postwar West Coast American art.

The gallery’s program foregrounds voices that have historically been underrepresented, placing their contributions in conversation with contemporary practices to create an ongoing dialogue across generations. Through exhibitions, research, and collaborations, House of Seiko works to illuminate overlooked narratives and to provide a platform for new artists whose work resonates with the experimental spirit and cultural movements that shaped the region in the second half of the twentieth century.

About the Presentation
House of Seiko will debut at Independent with a duo presentation featuring work by Salvatore Pione and Steve Kahn. The works of Pione (b. 1995) and Kahn (1943 - 2018) focus on an examination of the body as a site shaped by restraint, exposure, and negotiated boundaries. Though materially and historically distinct, both artists approach restraint not as limitation alone, but as a generative condition through which space, identity, and psychological pressure come into view.

Pione’s practice centers on patinated, weathered materials that echo the lived experience of aging urban environments, such as his native Sicily. His woven and layered constructions recall barricades, screens, and provisional architectures. These works serve as records of endurance on surfaces marked by time, contact, and erosion.

Kahn’s work addresses restraint through direct engagement with bodily vulnerability. Informed in part by his experience as a BDSM photographer in the early to mid-1970s, his practice isolates moments of exposure and suspension to examine the psychological tension between control, trust, and fragility. The body emerges as acutely present, tested against limits that are as much psychic as physical.

Together, Pione and Kahn form a dialogue on how bodies are shaped by architecture, intimacy, and constraint. The presentation is conceived as a measured, exhibition-like environment that privileges slowed looking, framing restraint as a shared language through which vulnerability and endurance are quietly negotiated.