For this collaboration with Nonaka-Hill Gallery, each artist was invited to explore the theme of 'Care' through their individual perspectives and creative processes.
How does care stretch beyond health-care? How does it spill out into the world? Can it live inside a thing—a cup, a stone, the dent in a pillow where you rested your head? Can that thing hold you for a moment, wrap around you the way sunlight does, soft, sudden? And if it holds you, do you hold it back?
Attracted to the narratives which common objects can create in relationship with each other, Takuro Tamayama began staging objects and sculptures in room-scaled installations as early as 2012. These immersive environments offer no linear means to comprehend Tamayama’s narrative, rather the environment is the decentralized narrative of symbols. Often, tools of the mundane rituals of cleaning and grooming abandoned of its designated role anthropomorphize into alien objects. In absence of human presence, the mop, an abstracted marble figure, hybrid hamburger and sandwich statue, and combs imbedded in irregular concrete forms, all having some human resonance, occupy the human void.
Takuro Tamayama was born in 1990, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. He lives and works in Tokyo. Tamayama was awarded first place in Aichi University of the Arts, 2012 Class Bachelors of Fine Art Graduate Project, 2013. Tamayama received a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2015. He is the recipient of Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2015 Shigeo Goto Award. Tamayama’s developing oeuvre includes installations, video, music, wall-based and sculptural works, as well as collaborative installation projects for Nike and the fashion brand, Zucca. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Japan including recent solo shows, Dirty Palace at Calm & Punk Gallery, 2018 and They Hardly Ever Stand Still at Talion Gallery, 2019, both in Tokyo. This is Tamayama’s first exhibition outside of Japan.
