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Isoya Hirofumi

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[On exhibit] Activation 05, Activation 06, 2023, ancient earthenware fragments from 3500-2500 BCE and clay. Private collection. Installation view from Prada Mode Tokyo at Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, 2023.

[On exhibit] Flowers and Bees, Translucent Archive, 2018, honey, fishing light and glass bottle. Collection of the artist. Installation view from Interaction: Souls in Synchronicity at Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama, 2020.

[Past work] Installation view from Find Your Verb at Koumi-machi Kougen Museum of Art, Nagano, 2022.

Inspired by photographic forms and materials, Isoya has created three series on epistemological themes. The first uses photographs to reflect on concepts of “presence and absence” and “time differences.” Isoya modified photographs of small peculiarities in everyday life to create this exhibit. The second features ceramic spheres made by crushing Neolithic pottery shards, mixing them in a 1:1 ratio with new clay, and then polishing and firing new objects. The third is an installation entitled Flowers and Bees, Translucent Archive that displays honey and fishing lights inside glass bottles. The exhibit considers the harvests of labor over time, the time spent by bees and the time spent by humans. The viewer slowly discovers the ontological questions asked by each work as they engage with them. Isoya’s unique world unfolds through each of the exhibits.

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PROFILE

Isoya Hirofumi

b. 1978 in Tokyo. Isoya studied architecture at the Tokyo University of the Arts before going on to study fine arts at the same institution and the Goldsmiths’ College at the University of London. Past exhibitions include Find Your Verb (Koumi-machi Kougen Museum of Art, 2022), Constellations (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA, 2021), L’image et son double (Centre Pompidou, France, 2021), and Syncopation (Pola Museum of Art, 2019). His works are in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.