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Pioneer

Photography
2021 -





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. Some land is covered, replaced, or lost for the purpose of improving quality of human life, but beyond all changes, emotional and unproductive human activity continues to remain. And, I considered one manifestation of this to be the "cultivation of plants".

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, although restricted and seemingly subservient to man, are indeed rather subordinated to man before its desires.


Installation Shot by Taisuke Koyama
Shown at ANB Tokyo, 2021

Curator: Akane Miki