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This work is an attempt to trace a river bank with different forms of stones, which symbolize the accumulation of time. Magmas from the inner core of the earth solidify, build up, and break into stones as they are washed by water. The stones are carried by the flowing river, changing size and shape, traveling the surface of the earth, and settling to form horizontally-stretching river banks. In this project, the stones are arranged to form a structure that evokes fences, that is, artificial boundaries. The stones that have reached the river bank suggest, in their molds of copper foil, their external and internal forms, the amounts that have been eroded thus far and will be eroded in the future and how long such erosion has taken and will take, reconstructing these elements back into a larger form. The simple method of creating forms by covering stones with copper foil and then removing the stones, which allows only a partial reproduction of the stones, implies that it is impossible to know everything. Copper is a material used in numerous electrical appliances essential for our daily lives. It is paper-thin, highly corrosion-resistant, and has excellent electrical and thermal conductivity and non-magnetic properties. It is used in this work to express time and space, boundaries and voids, inside and outside, and front and back. The seemingly reckless act of tracing a river bank is a clue to understanding this world, and creating a sculpture through this process is my reality.

1979

Born in Osaka Prefecture

2001

Graduated School of Art and Design, Tsukuba University

2004

Completed Department of Sculpture, Graduate School of Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts

2007

Stayed in Europe as recipient of the First Shu-Ou Foundation Study Abroad Award

2011

Received training in the UK as overseas trainee selected by the Pola Art Foundation

Awards received

2007

Taro Award, the 10th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art

2014

Sakuya Konohana Award, Osaka City

Main exhibition

2017

Solo exhibition "Edges", ART COURT Gallery, Osaka

2018

Water and Land Niigata Art Festival (Bandaijima Multipurpose Plaza, Niigata Prefecture)

2018

"The Moon" at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark)

2019

Negative Space, ZKM (Germany)

2020

Writing of Light, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan)

2021

Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.09, Takamatsu Art Museum (Kagawa Prefecture)

2022

KYOTO STEAM 2022／KYOTO STEAM 2022, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art (Kyoto)