TSUKIYAMA SHOTA
As if seeing begins again: YSY, 2025
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TSUKIYAMA SHOTA
As if seeing begins again: YSY, 2025
This work combines archival photographs of the Yurakucho Building and the Shin-Yurakucho Building with color fields based on the primary colors of light (RGB) and their complements. Typically, in photography, negatives and positives have an asymmetrical relationship — one as the record, the other as the image. But here, they coexist in the same space, layered and digitally inverted. This technique disrupts conventional visual systems of visibility and invisibility, drawing attention to the light structure before the image is formed, and the state of color before it acquires meaning. Multiple layers — positive and negative, record and color, reality and abstraction — emerge simultaneously, making the act of seeing itself ambiguous. Are we looking at the past, imagining the future, or feeling the present moment? The work encourages us to reconsider the very act of seeing, turning our own gaze into a medium that reveals unseen light — and in doing so, gently questions our assumptions about the world.
Archival Photos Supplied by Mitsubishi Estate
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TSUKIYAMA SHOTA
Photographer, Born in 1997 in Tokyo, Japan. Lives and work in Japan.graduated from Nippon Photography Institute in 2019. His interest in seeing has led him to develop photographic works, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional, that deal with the vision newly acquired through tools (cameras) and through the roles, knowledge, and physicality of his own position in the world. In recent years, based on the affinity between sniping and photography, he has been creating works that attempt to acquire new visual images by incorporating the actions of snipers and observers toward their targets, such as observation, reconnaissance, research, tactics, disguise, and camouflage, in the process before and after shooting.
Notable exhibitions include “ENCOUNTERS” (ANB TOKYO, Tokyo, 2020), “constellation #02” (rin art association, Takasaki, 2021), “P.O.N.D” (PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, 2021), “EENT” (POST-FAKE projects, Tokyo, 2023), “ATAMI ART GRANT 2023” (ATAMIX, Atami, 2023) “NEW ANXIETIES” (N/A & FF Seoul, Seoul, 2025).