Tree dissapeared
Main Gallery Area Artist
Tree drifting
Artist Information
Hozumi Miyamoto
1986 Born in Tokyo
2011 Graduated from Tama Art University, Oil Painting
2013 “You always with something” LUCKY HAPPY STUDIO (Tokyo, Japan)
2015 “Wonderful affairs I should have seen“ LOOP HOLE (Tokyo, Japan)
2016 “Fragments for unknown scenery“ AKIBATAMABI21 (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 “project N Hozumi Miyamoto” TOKYO OPERA CITY ART GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 “One eye,/Ring of the opposite shore“ Art laboratory Hashimoto (Kanagawa, Japan)
For my work in recent years, I’ve been printing out photographs I’ve chosen on plain paper using a printer that’s running low on ink, then using that as material. “Tree Disappeared” refers to trees in state-owned land in a particular suburb being periodically maintained, then when reaching a certain size and shape are cut down and disappear from the site. After some time has passed, they grow into the same type of height and appearance yet are cut down again. I have taken 8 years’ worth of records of this repeated process. Around this area some state-owned land has been sold and turned into home centers or super markets. These works are painted based on the photographs of these trees.
[Comment by Selector]
At AKIBATAMABI21, Hozumi Miyamoto planned and took part in an exhibition based on the intertwining timelines of 4 unrelated strangers titled “Fragmentation of Landscape”. She transformed the way of “seeing” into something relative through a method of purposely printing her photos onto regular paper with color printers, then combining them and laying them out by shifting their viewpoints and moments in time. This results in creating a picture where relationships between before and behind; before and after in distance and time are made unclear. With an interest in the relationships between things, spaces between events, and the distance between all of these, her scenes offer a new image to viewers.