Yamagami Yukihiro / Japan

Japan born 1976

Shinjuku Station in Tokyo is the world’s busiest train station, and the subject of Yamagami Yukihiro’s installation Shinjuku calling, 2014. The work consists of two parts: a meticulous pencil drawing of a streetscape provides the surface onto which the video is projected. The drawing depicts an external view of the station, with pedestrian crossings, elevated railway tracks and neon-adorned buildings, and the video projects ghostly footage of passing pedestrains, trains and traffic, as well as the changing light as day passes into night. The work fuses into a complex, multifaceted evocation of place imbued with a melancholic sense of transience.

BIO

Over the past fifteen years, Yamagami has held fifteen solo exhibitions, primarily in Kyoto, and has been included in several institutional group exhibitions in Japan. In 2008 Yamagami was awarded the Okamoto Taro Award for Contemporary Art.