Hello, Voyager

biscuit gallery karuizawa is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Yuta Nishiura, “Hello, Voyager,” starting Friday, November 3, 2023.

The twin Voyagers, launched forty-six years ago, are still swimming through outer space at this very moment.
For instance, even to reach the Sirius that floats among the stars in the night sky, they have another three hundred thousand years of journey ahead of them.
On the so-called Golden Record they carry are recordings of thunder and rain, the voices of animals and insects, music of many kinds — and, in more than fifty languages, the spoken words “Hello, how are you.” A greeting from Earth to whoever may be out there.
Perhaps the moment our message reaches someone, somewhere, will be long after both the Sun and the Earth have vanished. And yet, when I imagine the instant that someone places a needle on the record, and the long journey of the twins up to that point, my heart grows warm and aches a little.
The endless, imaginative story that Voyager shows us has, I think, something in common with the infinite world of imagination that art draws us into.
“Hey, what are you doing now?” “What can you see from where you are?” — I want to make works that make you feel like asking these questions.                        (Yuta Nishiura)

 

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Artist Profile

Yuta Nishiura

1974 Born in Yokohama
1997 Studied at the Sculpture Project, Bagamoyo College of Arts, Tanzania
2000 Graduated from the Department of Chinese Ink Painting, Toyo Institute of Art and Design
2005 Withdrew from the advanced program, University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (HFBK), Germany

Selected Exhibitions (recent years)
Solo Exhibitions
2022
“prologue,” IDEE Shop Roppongi, Tokyo
“we,” krank / marcello, Fukuoka
“else,” Inside My Glass Doors, Osaka
2021
“scenes,” Savoir Vivre, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions
2022
“One Art Taipei 2022,” Taiwan
“grid,” biscuit gallery, Tokyo
2021
“Art Taipei 2021,” Taiwan
“beautiful dream” by Yuta Nishiura and Mobai, Hankyu Umeda Main Store Art Gallery, Osaka

 

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