Yasuo Kiyonaga

What we perceive as "now" actually happened 0.5 seconds ago. Then, the scene I am seeing now happened a short time ago. I recorded the "current scene" with a shutter speed of 1 second, thereby accumulating memories. I tried to express the scenery of my memories, which are becoming vague as time passes, and the "now" in the ancient capital of Kyoto, which has a history of more than 1,200 years.

I visited the Boso Peninsula. As someone who grew up in the Seto Inland Sea, the seaside is a place that brings back childhood memories and is the original landscape of my heart. The scene of sandy beaches with wave marks on them is the same today as it was in the past. I painted these wave marks just like I did when I played in the sand in my childhood.

Advertisement flyers and numbers on the walls of Hanoi, Vietnam have been repeatedly pasted, peeled off, painted and erased, and many people are involved behind the scenes. The artist does not intend to express the patterns and strangeness of the walls, but to express through the walls the activities of the people of Hanoi, the accumulated history of people, their lives, and the flow of time. The method of production was inkjet printing on canvas, and acrylic paint was applied on top.

A series that combines photographs of flowers and paintings

An abstract work representing the fragility and beauty of memory

A work painted with a motif of a photograph taken in Kyoto

This group of still life works offers a glimpse of a lovely everyday life surrounded by unique objects. The use of different light brings out the texture of the subjects and the expression of their shadows.

The work is physical and intuitive. Coloring and chemicals were used on the photographs to create unique works of art.