Tomonari Takemura

He regards the media he uses for his artworks, such as paintings and videos, as bodies, and creates and researches them with the aim of capturing their aspects in his works. Therefore, his motif is the process of media creation itself, such as the transformation of paint into painting, and also what makes the body a body, that is, something that manifests its existence as an individual. And if the artwork is a body, then it will have a world just like an individual human being. He is conscious of the composition of his works and the exhibition method that will bring out the mutuality in the act of appreciation, that is, how the work can reach out into the exhibition room or into the viewer's body as the work, or how the viewer can become aware of that hand.

Major exhibitions to date include awai - Intersecting Realities (2023 Gallery NIW).

Featured work: Heat Source, 2024