Born in 1996 in
Nagoya, Japan, he studied Educational Sciences and Human Studies at the
University of Tsukuba from 2015.
His artistic practice
focuses on what Édouard Glissant called the “Poetics of Relation,” exploring the lived relationality that arises between
people, and between people and things. Rather than presenting completed
objects, he creates site-specific, participatory installations
in which the "emergence of events" of lived
encounters itself holds artistic significance.
Across
both individual and collective projects, his work is grounded in a fundamental
question: Why
is it so hard for people just to be with one another? His practice unfolds as a continuous response to this question through
diverse approaches.
In 2017,
he founded the non-profit organization LES WORLD, which travels to orphanages and slums
worldwide to create musicals and films together with children. Guided by the
vision “Create connections
beyond all boundaries,” LES WORLD has
collaborated with over 2,200 children in 12 countries over the past eight years
(https://lesworld.org/).
In 2020,
prompted by sheltering friends who had nowhere to return during the COVID-19
pandemic, he opened his home as a
shared house. It gradually became a place where people
from across Japan gathered almost daily to share meals and everyday life. The moments
of profound connection with these residents—especially around the time of his mother’s passing, when they
stood by him more than his own family—became the starting point for his inquiry into a “Poetics of Relation” and the creation of site-specific, process-based installations.
During
the same period, as part of LES WORLD, he also began producing music festivals
in Japan, framing each as a participatory installation. Over 3,500 people have engaged
in these projects through music, dance, or dialogue. One of the central works, the annual Nation-Building FES, installs an apparatus within
the site, where 100 participants live together for four days, generating
moments in which the artwork emerges as an event itself (see: series
– communities it’s still
unnamed.).
Through
these experiences—both at home and in these collaborative projects—he came to
see that bringing “lived
relations” into the institutional space of art could create a new fissure
within existing artistic frameworks. His current practice
aims to generate an alternative
mode of art-making, not through critique or deconstruction, but by enacting forms of
being-together that open space for lived resonance.
In 2023, he also began
working independently on spatial design projects through ecological gardening in public facilities. In 2024, he
launched THE ONE, an international
project inviting children from six countries across Asia and Africa to create a
shared stage performance. With a cast of 50, a staff of 100, and an audience of
1,100, the project successfully realized a large-scale collaborative work. He continues to expand the scope of his practice
across diverse fields, always rooted in the pursuit of how relations can be
lived and experienced anew.
Past
Shows
2021/03/03-07
Kyoto Kyocera Art Museum.(competition, won 2 prizes)
2021/04/19-26
session 2021｜Ginza Art Point.(group)
2021/08/13
Saatchi Gallery, LONDON.(group)
2021/08/16-22
FOLD Gallery, LONDON.(group)
2021/11/09-14 SOLO
show I am Dancing in the Water (Nine
Gallery, Tokyo)
Archives
2020~ 《家》
2022/05/01-04 “an Encounter”.
2022/09/04-07 “aida”
2023/05/04-07 “a forest – communus”
2024/05/03-06 Once the glass is filled and the
water spills onto the earth, we can no longer tell it apart from the world.
2024/10/11 a diner
2025/05/03-06 I found it(you).
Awards
2021/03 Sosho
Mochida Awards, AIDS Achievement Award (Kyoto Kyocera Art Museum)
