Island presents a solo exhibition by Hitoshi Kuriyama.

Artist Statement:

Rotational movement of the Earth, water circulation system, atmospheric pressure, and amino acid composing creatures, just to name a few. We don’t think about their existence or origin because they are here with us so naturally. But, without leaving this planet the Earth, I believe I can have the viewers recognize things in a new way by capturing the phenomena on the Earth in an extraterrestrial, or a macro, perspective, and then presenting it to them. Exploring the mechanism of the unlimited universe is like counting the number of stars, but I hope I can change the viewers’ perception of the universe if only a little.

About the artist:

Hitoshi Kuriyama was born in 1979 in Hyogo, Japan. He earned a Ph.D. in inter-media art from Tokyo University of the Arts (2011). In his works, he explores equivalency in conflicting ideas such as “existence” and “non-existence” or “creation” and “destruction,” and demonstrates them from a scientific perspective. He has theorized the hypothesis “0=1” and attempts to prove it through his works. He has participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide such as “data and vision” Aki gallery (Taipei), “0,1, and visions” Venice Project (Venice), “GLASSTRESS 2011” collateral event of the 54th Venice Biennale (Venice), “Drifting Images” BODA (Seoul), and ”What Dwells Inside” S12 Galleri og Verksted (Bergen).

-Island

Image: © Hitoshi Kuriyama
Courtesy of the artist and Island