Photographer and stage writer. Born in Fukuoka Prefecture. His research and practice focuses on connecting memories and landscapes that remain in marginalized places and things, and finding the middle term between "here" and "there" to foreground them. He works across disciplines, creating fiction mainly from photographs and videos he has taken himself, and presenting it through his own and others' bodies and various media.
Graduated from Waseda University in 2011 with a BA in Theatre and Film Arts, Faculty of Letters, and completed the doctoral program in Advanced Art Expression, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2017. D. in Art, and received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council to stay in New York from 2022 to 2023. Currently based in Tokyo and Kanagawa.
Recent major exhibitions and performances include "SEAsaw: Kisogawa, Voyaging through Space" (mh PROJECT Nokogirini, Aichi, 2023), "YAU TEN" (YAU STUDIO, Tokyo, 2022), "To/from Kuba" (ANB Tokyo, 2021), "Practice to Fall Well" (Kyoto Art Center , 2019), etc.
Solo exhibition at Towada Museum of Contemporary Art space from September 2023, and will participate in a group exhibition in NY from October. Photo by Mayumi Hosokura
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