NERHOL
Prize
Smailes Prize
Nerhol is an artist unit composed of Yoshihisa Tanaka and Ryuta Iida.
Tanaka was born in 1980 in Shizuoka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Scenography, Display and Fashion Design, Musashino Art University in 2004.
Iida was born in 1981 in Shizuoka Prefecture. He graduated from the Program in Sculpture, Department of Fine Arts, Nihon University College of Art in 2004.
Its members previously worked independently, but decided to work as a unit when they found a shared interest in raising questions relevant to the contemporary period and communicating them to an audience. Nerhol has participated in exhibitions in museums and galleries in Japan and abroad and consistently produced works that sharply criticize the perennial cycle of consumption, creation, and obsolescence produced by contemporary economic activities. In 2014, Nerhol particpated in Foam Talent Call 2014; L'Atelier Néerlandais, Paris; Unseen Photo Fair 2014, Amsterdam; and FESTIVAL IMAGES 2014, Switzerland. The unit's works have received increasing acclaim.
Facing the subject, the shutter is released 200 times over a period of several minutes. Each one is printed and superposed, after which we go about carving. Over a long period, a single image comes through. The creation of an image from a succession of loss is a paradoxical result thought of beforehand. Just how far is the resultant image? The distorted subject, though removed in several ways, seems to continue to live. There is no choice but to say that it exists in a far off place. Yet it is precisely because of its remoteness that we can scratch at the surface of the metaphor - could we agitate the present which continues to escape us?
Tanaka was born in 1980 in Shizuoka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Scenography, Display and Fashion Design, Musashino Art University in 2004.
Iida was born in 1981 in Shizuoka Prefecture. He graduated from the Program in Sculpture, Department of Fine Arts, Nihon University College of Art in 2004.
Its members previously worked independently, but decided to work as a unit when they found a shared interest in raising questions relevant to the contemporary period and communicating them to an audience. Nerhol has participated in exhibitions in museums and galleries in Japan and abroad and consistently produced works that sharply criticize the perennial cycle of consumption, creation, and obsolescence produced by contemporary economic activities. In 2014, Nerhol particpated in Foam Talent Call 2014; L'Atelier Néerlandais, Paris; Unseen Photo Fair 2014, Amsterdam; and FESTIVAL IMAGES 2014, Switzerland. The unit's works have received increasing acclaim.
Facing the subject, the shutter is released 200 times over a period of several minutes. Each one is printed and superposed, after which we go about carving. Over a long period, a single image comes through. The creation of an image from a succession of loss is a paradoxical result thought of beforehand. Just how far is the resultant image? The distorted subject, though removed in several ways, seems to continue to live. There is no choice but to say that it exists in a far off place. Yet it is precisely because of its remoteness that we can scratch at the surface of the metaphor - could we agitate the present which continues to escape us?