Profile
Tomotosi
After graduating from Toyohashi University of Technology, spent nearly 10 years working in architecture and urban planning.
Since 2014, has been presenting video installation works.
Since 2020, has been planning and operating TOMO Urban Art Museum in Nishi-Ogikubo. Major exhibitions include “Hernia City” (TOMO Urban Art Museum, 2020), “Aerobic Picking Up” (Saitama Museum of Modern Art, 2019), “Aichi Triennale 2019” (Toyota City, 2019), and “tttv” (Chuo Main Line Gallery, 2018).
Artist Statement
I create work by “performing actions that distort urban spaces and public rules, and recording the moment when people’s movements transform.” This attitude as an artist has been nurtured by a conclusion I reached through years of work as a designer in architecture and urban planning: “there can be no perfect design of architecture or cities.” It is impossible to incorporate and formalize all of humanity’s infinite emotions and behaviors without omission.
Once I understood that cities are inherently imperfect, my interest shifted to updating the ways cities themselves are used. Since then, I have quit being a designer and am now working as an artist to develop new ways of using cities.
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