2025

Dedicated to SEYANA group

Mirroring

In this work, he assembles objects the same height as myself with hoses, pipes, and other water-related items. Whenever I travel or stay in a residence, all I remember is the bathroom, toilet, or bath. They tend to leave a lasting impression, perhaps because they make me think about the fact that there were people here before me, or that someone else will come after I leave here. It's a strange feeling, a feeling that is elusive to talk about, and therefore inevitable, such that it has to be made into a work of art (and I like that too).

2025

Support: YAU STUDIO

Glow

Highways and traffic jams are places where the flow of objects becomes visible as movements of light. Each time I travel by car, taxi, or bus, I attempt to capture the shifting glow seen from within the swaying interior. Yet, the more I try to create a single, coherent image from something always in flux, the further I move away from the actual experience. For me, perception encompasses not only vision but also physical, collective memories—such as the color temperature of the light touching my face and the sensation of the heater inside the vehicle—as well as the feeling of time stretching. Drawing on this collective memory, I rework multiple photographs into objects that more closely reflect myr own perception.

2021/2024

Plasticity

2024

M.S,S, / Military Slang Sayings

Yokosuka, where I have been conducting a field survey for a year and a half - a land where many Americans reside in Japan because of the U.S. military base, although I have never had the opportunity to naturally engage with US military personnel in the past. Even though I live in Yokosuka some day, such opportunities must to be rare, and relying on a "teach/be taught" structure may be the quickest way to get involved with someone, and may even have a win-win effect. That assumption led a way to make this 7 minutes video work.

In this work, "M.S.S." shows a person when studying the slang used on a U.S. military base (=military slang sayings) by herself, in preparation for the day when he/she will be involved with U.S. military people. Without knowing whether there is a chance to actually use those slangs in conversation. The aim of the video work is taking back to my hands an ability for being optimistic in self-taught language studying, in the society of Japan that learning English is a kind of way to be privilege. In between the act of studying a language that one does not know when one will use it, and the act of learning a language that, even if learned, seems to be useless(but being fullfilled with hope).

2023

Support:Sense Island 2023

Macht

I had the opportunity to create something about “something like an energy body that has no physical form,” and I created a method to understand it in a more personal way.
First, since I am a German learner, I looked up the words in German, related words of “energy”. Then, I created example sentences based on the meaning of each word. Making example sentences is a common technique in language learning, but I used these example sentences as “prompts” to compose an image from the words. Coffee was used as a motif because of its caffeine content in this work.

2024

Support: ACAC The Aomori Contemporary Art Centre

Field_B

2023

Translation: Yuki Konno

Designs: Eunji Lee

Pioneer

Pioneer's subject matter is the ambivalent relationship between being offset and being activated. Drawing inspiration from field surveys in Los Angeles, the works depict landscapes that change with human intervention and desires that remain the same as before as they knew. We can see more than just human activity in the irrigation systems in the restricted environments, and the plants existing in a very artificial way. The plants there seemingly subservient to human, are indeed rather subordinated man before their desires.For example, in the irrigation systems introduced to cultivate plants that grow in restricted environments, and in the plants near living environments that are existing in a very artificial way, we can see more than just human activity in growing plants for their hobby. The plants there seemingly subservient to man, are indeed rather subordinated man before their desires.

2020/2021

Support:ANB Tokyo
photo:Taisuke Koyama

Fly Ahead

In Japan, the height of buildings surrounding the Imperial Palace is regulated to prevent them from overshadowing the Palace. In Fly Ahead, I created an installation featuring an image of an airplane seemingly flying just above the ground near the Palace's perimeter—an event that never occurred in reality—embedded into an advertisement panel. The notion that 'airplanes can't fly over the Imperial Palace' is a fabricated story I encountered in a university reading group. Given that central Tokyo is in close proximity to a large international airport, I began to consider that this event could be plausible. However, by that point, this believable fabrication had already become a reality in my mind, prompting the creation of this work. I exhibited this piece using window panels that originally held actual advertising images.

2022
photo: TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC RESEARCH