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Haruka Yamada - Mirage of Sundials
2023/11/1 Wed - 12/10 Sun
November 1 – December 10, 2023
*Open from 10:00 on November 1–5 for Art Week Tokyo
Wed–Sat 13:00–19:00 / Sun 13:00–18:00
Closed on Mon & Tue
*Open from 10:00 on November 1–5 for Art Week Tokyo
Wed–Sat 13:00–19:00 / Sun 13:00–18:00
Closed on Mon & Tue
Opening Reception: 2023年11月4日（土）18:00-20:00
Introduction
From November 1 to December 10, POETIC SCAPE will present Haruka Yamada: Trace of a Sundial, the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. This exhibition will also be part of Art Week Tokyo 2023.
Since 2013, Yamada has been developing Sun of the City, an ongoing project in which he creates sundials that utilize existing urban structures, works that can function only in their specific locations. The project connects our everyday lives to the movement of celestial bodies, bridging the global systems of time and geography.
In this exhibition, Yamada explores new ways to reconstruct and reinterpret these site-specific sundials realized in different parts of the world. Through various methods of translation and replication, the works evoke the absence of the original sundials, pointing instead to their continued or past existence elsewhere. Each piece thus becomes a trace - a quiet echo of a sundial still marking time in another corner of the world.
Since 2013, Yamada has been developing Sun of the City, an ongoing project in which he creates sundials that utilize existing urban structures, works that can function only in their specific locations. The project connects our everyday lives to the movement of celestial bodies, bridging the global systems of time and geography.
In this exhibition, Yamada explores new ways to reconstruct and reinterpret these site-specific sundials realized in different parts of the world. Through various methods of translation and replication, the works evoke the absence of the original sundials, pointing instead to their continued or past existence elsewhere. Each piece thus becomes a trace - a quiet echo of a sundial still marking time in another corner of the world.
Profile
Haruka Yamada
Born in 1986 in Kanagawa, Japan. After graduating from Musashino Art University with a degree in Oil Painting, she studied at École nationale supérieure d’art de Dijon (École des Beaux-Arts de Dijon) in France, where she completed a program in Spatial Design and Art. Her dual background led her to develop a keen interest in the practice of art within urban spaces.
Focusing on how artistic actions can take form within ever-changing urban environments, Yamada explores the relational dynamics between city, nature, and human presence, continuously re-examining the balance among them.
Her recent solo exhibitions include Nocturne (POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo, 2022) and Neither Metaphor Nor Appeal vol.2: Yuu Yamada “Nocturne” (soco1010, Tokyo, 2021). Selected group exhibitions and projects include Setouchi Triennale 2022 (Tadotsu Machinaka Project, Kagawa), Koganecho Bazaar 2020 — Artists and Communities (Kanagawa), and Widget Factory Annual Art Show (Aparaaditehas, Tartu, Estonia, 2019).
She was a finalist in Genbi “Anywhere” Art Project Open Call (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2016) and received the Grand Prix at Prix Dauphine pour l’art contemporain (Paris, France, 2015).