Artists

Let us imagine the real that is invisible and taking place underground. Gifu Prefecture is a mountainous area with many active volcanoes. This proximity to volcanoes makes one inevitably feel the activities of Planet Earth. This work is created with light emitted from the sun in outer space melting rocks produced in volcanic eruptions, an activity of the earth. Rocks melt into magmas. Reproducing magmas is therefore an act of turning back the time of rocks, tracing the history of the land. The production of this work begins with collecting volcanic rocks along a river flowing from a volcano in Gifu Prefecture, melting the rocks, and filming as they become magmas. The filmed images are projected on to the floor inside the Cube to remind us of what once happened and is still happening at present underneath our feet. Whether one is a local resident or visitor, it is important to contemplate the evolution of the place where one is currently standing because by doing so, one can imagine what can happen in the future. Japan is a place where one can feel the earth’s activities particularly intensely. Standing on top of fictitious images of magmas, viewers are invited to contemplate where they are at this moment, Nature, the earth, the universe, and more.

1982

Born in Hokkaido

2009

Completed Graduate School of Sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts

Awards received

2011

Bronze Award, Maebashi Art Competition Live (Gunma Prefecture)

2012

Jury's Award, Maebashi Art Competition Live (Gunma Prefecture)

Main exhibition

2015

Nakanojo Biennale 2015 (Nakanojo Town, Gunma Prefecture)

2017

Solo exhibition "1000 Degrees," Hohhaus Museum (Germany)

2018

Weather Report From Landscape via Earthworks to Neo-Cosmographia, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (Tochigi Prefecture)

2019

Solo exhibition "Lightrays," Gallery Off Grid (Fukushima Prefecture)

2022

Solo exhibition "TOKACHIDAKE," Furano City Museum (Hokkaido)

2022

SUIGUN LINE OKUKUJI ART FIELD 2022 (Daigo Town, Ibaraki Prefecture)