Yuta Ikehara

Japan

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Yuta Ikehara creates works with the theme of reincarnation. He depicts a world in which animals and plants that represent the natural world, noise and artifacts that symbolize human society are mixed. By collaging watercolors, photos and textures, these express that everything is circulating in a big tide. Due to the development of infrastructure in modern society, vast amounts of knowledge, technology and experience are widely transmitted across national borders, and information sharing is accelerating.

At the same time, he feels that too much information is hiding facts and undermining the power to think about things. He thinks that a superficial behavior like scooping an oil slick floating on the water surface will not always reach the essence.

Things are always in flux. The inability to maintain identity also means repeating life and death. Culture, history and values are born from the background of the land and life. Such collective wisdom cannot be achieved only by death or disappearance, but by being inherited by the next life.

In the information society, shortsighted consumption due to oversupply can only have a one-sided disappearance aspect and does not lead to global creation. He thinks that death can be meaningful because of rebirth and that repetition is salvation.

He thinks everything is in the process of decline and regeneration, and he finds value in that process. In a modern society where the true value tends to be hard to see, he creates works by thinking about what he needs to do.