Kohei Fukushima “Maps”

Nanatasu Gallery

Finished

Artists

Kohei Fukushima

Kohei Fukushima was born in Tokyo in 1980 and graduated from Yokohama College of Art and Design. His works integrate various media in explorations of contemporary art photography. In recent years he has focused on themes of “visualizing things not readily apparent to the eye,” “the processes of nature pilgrimages,” and “death.” Mounted on hanging scrolls, folding screens, and other forms that simultaneous emphasize connectivity and disconnectedness, his works grapple with transcendental ideas such as life, death, god, and nature. In 2017, Fukushima has been chosen as a finalist in the 20th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art and the 6th Tobi Selection competitions, and received the Yokohama College of Art and Design Dean’s Award for Excellence.

[Artist’s Statement]
Map apps have already been around for more than a decade, and they our expanding the realities of our daily lives. My works capture the “noise” produced when computers read map application data recording the events and changes of our everyday surroundings. I use this data to create scenes that go beyond what we see in the media, reflecting a hyper-realistic view of the world.

Schedule

Jul 15 (Sat) 2017-Jul 30 (Sun) 2017