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Yoichi Kamimura "Waterforest"

Hakari Contemporary

Until Oct 6

Artists

Yoichi Kamimura

※This event has been postponed. Information will be updated as soon as the new dates are decided.

Hakari Contemporary is pleased to present Waterforest, a solo exhibition by Yoichi Kamimura. Kamimura has been exploring ways to perceive landscapes through the visual and auditory senses, combining field recordings of environmental sounds with visual elements including drawings, text, and light. He brings these elements together to create sound installations, paintings, video works, and performances, which Hakari Contemporary is pleased to present Waterforest, a solo exhibition by Yoichi Kamimura. Kamimura has been exploring ways to perceive landscapes through the visual and auditory senses, combining field recordings of environmental sounds with visual elements including drawings, text, and light. He brings these elements together to create sound installations, paintings, video works, and performances, which have been exhibited in Japan and abroad. In this exhibition, Kamimura will present soundscapes based primarily on field recordings captured in various places that he has traveled to around the world. In particular, sound installations will focus on the Shiretoko drift ice, Icelandic glaciers, the Amazon rainforest, the world’s largest waterfall Iguaçu, a spring in the Swiss Alps, the Lake Biwa Sosui that runs beneath Kyoto, and ocean sounds from around the world recorded during the full and new moon. In addition to the soundscape of water flowing through the exhibition space as a bassline, a forest-like installation of images showing trees, water and sky captured in the course of his travels will also be presented. This exhibition is inspired by the sea of clouds that Kamimura saw from a boat whilst sailing the Amazon River. This sea of clouds, called a “Flying River,” is a phenomenon that symbolizes the ecology of the Amazon, occurring when large amounts of water that have evaporated from the tropical rainforest rise into the sky to form huge clouds that bring rain, thus returning the water to the forest. At the same time, this circulation of “water” and “forest” is a natural phenomenon that effortlessly transcends boundaries created by humans. Kamimura entitled this exhibition “Waterforest” as a metaphor for overcoming the accelerating divisions and violence spreading around the world, and to express and pursue the universality of his own physical sensations from his experience in these natural environments.

Additionally, a guest curator KUROSAWA Seiha will participate in the exhibition. Kamimura and Kurosawa worked together on a collaborative exhibition, Floating Between Tropical and Glacial Zones (2021), that brought together field research conducted in the Amazon, Brazil and Shiretoko, Hokkaido, to seek new environmental perspectives. They have continued to participate in an ongoing dialogue about new ecological perspectives for several years, and this dialogue is reflected in the context of this exhibition. Please take this opportunity to view Kamimura’s new exhibition, which is both fluid and increasingly oriented toward a more universal and planetary attitude.

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Aug 18 (Sun) 2024-Oct 6 (Sun) 2024 31 days left