Kenji Hirasawa Personal Exhibition

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Name of the organization or individual

Kenji Hirasawa

subsidy category

Creation Grant

Grant Type

single year individual

Reiwa 3(2021) 1st Term Creation Grant Category I Single-Year Grant

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Business Overview

With the spread and prolongation of the novel coronavirus, climate change, and destabilization of the international order and economy, our lives have entered a phase of severe change. In this time of transition, Kenji Hirasawa's solo exhibition was held under the theme of "Portrait," in order to express his thoughts on the more universal way human beings should be. In this exhibition, starting from the assumption that "If we could quantify love," the theme is expanded to emotions, human existence, and memories, and explored using various mediums and expression methods such as photography, video, text, sound, light, food, installation, and performance. During the exhibition, performances by MIRA New Tradition and Yuki Kobayashi and Ryuichi Ono were also held.

Period of Activity / Project

Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 18th (Sun)

Venues

Kitasenju BUoY

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Profile

[Hirasawa Kenji]
Hirasawa Kenji (born in 1982) mastered the technology of remote sensing using artificial satellites while he was a student at Keio University's School of Environmental Informatics, and began to create art works using one of the devices, a thermography camera. After that, he went to England and studied photography at the Royal College of Art. Early portrait works created by capturing the light emitted internally by organisms, rather than natural or artificial light, evoke a sense of wonder and awe at the phenomenon of life. Hirasawa's masterpiece "Celebrities" series, in which wax sculptures of living celebrities were photographed with a thermographic camera, paradoxically raises questions about the boundary between life and non-life. Hirasawa, who became interested in dynamic facial expressions and emotions after the death of his girlfriend, expanded his subjects to include animals and dance, and expanded the scope of his creative activities while actively consuming new mediums and technologies.