This lecture will invite young Japanese artist Matsuda to discuss the use of narrative as the basic premise in contemporary art creation and the exploration of human-centered behavior in space. In art creation, how external factors such as time, history, and events are transformed into key elements of personal creative ideas.
Masanori Matsuda,born in Osaka in 1982, graduated from Tokyo University of Art. In addition toparticipating in residency projects in Japan, his international residency experience is also very rich. He has completed several image and installation works in international residency organizations in Switzerland and Ireland. In 2017, he received a year of overseas research support from the POLA Art Foundation in Ireland.
“Everything had changed since January 17, 1995 when I woke up - as an earthquake survivor - in the Kobe Earthquake. My family house was collapsed and I was 12 years old at the time. Surviving in a major earthquake is a life evoking experience. From then onwards, I am much aware of a parallel world where is not lying ahead of what I perceive as the actual reality but, perhaps, a reality that is filled with emptiness to be registered on the other ends of this phenomenological world. 'Life cycles' has been a fundamental premise for tracing the narratives in my work. I am drawn to exploring the spatial stories that could be traced through former human activities. Hence, getting to know and understand the history of a place is crucial in my art practice.”
——Masanori Matsuda