KOBAYASHI Masahiko
Masahiko Kobayashi is a photographer who seeks to capture the “invisible presence” through photography.
He seeks to capture the “invisible presence” through photography, which refers to emotions that have not been able to acquire the contours of information such as text and images, as well as fragments of memories and thoughts that have not been archived. Working as a valuable human resource in today’s society requires efficient and reproducible work performance. In the field of communication, vague, redundant, and unorganized thoughts are considered incomprehensible, and their existence is treated as something that has passed away.
What we receive in daily information transmission is what has been summarized and appropriately worded, and we cannot see the incomprehensible things that should have been on the periphery of the information. He believes that such things are feelings that should not be discarded in life, and that they should be confronted.
In recent years, he has been working with a slide projector and acrylic plates to create a space in which viewers can see invisible images by groping around.
The world we see is fragmented, and by knowing what exists outside of it, we may acquire a way to perceive things that are currently unobservable. He aims to make his works an opportunity to do so.
Biography
Born in Saitama, Japan in 1988 and currently resides in Saitama, Japan in 2024.
Studied photographic production techniques while in college. After graduation, he worked as a system engineer while working as an artist. 2018 to 2021, he participated in an art communication project based in a museum, and in 2022, he took the DOOR project to learn about the nature of communication through artworks and the relationship between art and welfare. He produces photographic works on the themes of “visualizing the invisible” and “the difficulty of seeing and sharing.”
Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions
2024 KYOTOGRAPHIE KG+ / Who GIves a Thought (○MA, Kyoto)
2024 Laundry ( Alt_Medium, Tokyo )
2023 Life Historical Landscape ( gallery RooM, Saitama )
Group Exhibitions
2024 The 9th Photo Archipelago Photography School Graduation Exhibition ( TAKAMATSU ART MUSEUM | Kagawa)
2024 KG+ × Teramachi kyogoku shopping street art museum collaboration ( mumokuteki cafe | Kyoto )
2024 APA AWARD PHOTOGRAPHY SECTION ( TOP MUSEUM / Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art )
Art Project
2023 D-Lab 9Jigen Divers ( Taito City Arts and Culture Support Program | Tokyo )
Grant
2023 APA AWARD PHOTOGRAPHY SECTION selected
Workshop
2022 Cyanotype Photogram Workshop ( Kori | Tokyo )
Contact
koba631208<at>gmail.com
Last updated: Dec. 12, 2024