Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya is pleased to present artist Yuna Yagi's “Superposition” from April 25 to May 27, 2024.
Yagi graduated from the School of Architecture at Parsons School of Design, New York. After working in Canada, New York, and Berlin, she is currently based in Kyoto. After working at an architectural firm, Yagi began to rethink the act of “seeing” by photographing buildings as a photographer, and pursuing the truth of things, he consistently creates works that overlap the concept of time and space under the theme of “the essence of seeing,” such as installations using visuals and phenomena and works that move between two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms using materials used in architecture, etc. He consistently produces works that overlap the concept of time and space on the theme of “the essence of seeing. This work combines acrylic blocks and photographs to project different views from different viewing angles due to the refraction of light. A work that applies an algorithm to a photograph to distort the image on a flat surface. The artist intentionally makes viewers aware of the way they perceive things that can be visualized by presenting photographs in various ways, such as by printing photographs on metal and folding them, to create multiple viewpoints.

- a statement by the artist for this exhibition

“I am not sure if it was a dream or not. My alarm went off and I looked at the clock. I start to get ready in a hurry, thinking that it is already 9:00 a.m.. Then the alarm clock rings again with the same sound, and the other me wakes up. I looked at the clock and saw that the hands were pointing to 7 o'clock. It was not a mistake. It was indeed 9:00 when I first woke up. I” am living a little ahead of time, and ‘I’ am in the present. A strange experience that even though it is in the present, the present feels like it is already in the past. Both felt “real” and as if several “I's” were spending multiple times. In recent years, I have been unraveling the multiplicity of “time,” “existence,” and “space” that I experienced in my dreams, and exploring STILL LIFE (still life) in photography. This time, I will present two new works that follow these themes. The first is an attempt to combine the sensation of dreams with the simultaneous existence of flowers, stones, dried plants, seeds, ores, metals, glass, and resins, all of which have their own time axes. The second is to combine two perspectives: the concept of time generated by AI and the visualization of the passage of time based on human sensation and experience. For me, they may be an act of self-confirmation in the multi-layered nature of existence brought about by the fragmentation and reconstruction of time, which is different from the “flow of time” that we accept on a daily basis. The finite is ubiquitous.
The world is a collection of events. The world is a collection of events.”

Superposition” is the first solo exhibition at Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya. Yagi, who creates works inspired by words, has deepened his own expression by contemplating the perception of time and illusions based on his experience of reading Carlo Rovelli's book, “Time Does Not Exist. In this exhibition, he will exhibit about 15 works, a combination of the works he has been practicing and new works. We hope you will take this opportunity to visit the exhibition.

*“Superposition” in Japanese means “the principle of superposition, layers.