Kentaro Taki

Living in the Box

4K video
Variable size
2007-2022

Reference price: 200,000~499,999JPY

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Influenced by avant-garde and trials of early video art, Taki has been expressing the relationship between “seeing” and technology of today in his art pieces. When a certain technology goes to be a natural existence such as commodities for consumption, the relation of technology and human being, is led up to a phase of building dialectic of mutual hybrid contacts beyond master and slave relation. On the process of those, “seeing” goes to be separated as “too much seeing” and “too much not seeing.” If these questions on too visible or too invisible, opened in a connection of “ground and object” among sculpture, space, screen and viewer, Taki tries to converge those hybridization and overturning into his piece.

Artist Profile

Kentaro Taki

Born Osaka, Japan in 1973. Completed his Master of fine arts through the Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Musashino Art University. From 2002-2004, he was involved in the Overseas Study Program for Artists by the Cultural Agency of Japan, and then by the POLA Art Foundation Overseas Research Program Grant to spend time at the HFG Karlsruhe ZKM in Germany. Ph.D. at Institute of Urban Innovation, Yokohama National University. Solo show "Scopophilia Machine", 2020, MORI YU GALLERY, Kyoto, won the grand prize and Peter Cook prize of BIX Graz Competition 2005.