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 ground between "here" and "there" to foreground them. He creates fictions based mainly on photographs and videos he has taken himself, and presents them through his own and others' bodies and various media, working in a cross-disciplinary manner.
In 2011, he graduated from Waseda University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Theatre and Film Arts, and in 2017, he completed the doctoral program of Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Advanced Art Expression, Ph. 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.
He will have a solo exhibition at Towada Museum of Contemporary Art space from September 2023, and will participate in a group exhibition in New York from October 2023. Photo by Mayumi Hosokura
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