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Through his still and installation-based video artwork, Youki Hirakawa explores a mysterious and immeasurable sense of time, loss and longing inspired by archaeology, geology and alchemy. His monochromatic imagery is imbued with a melancholic quality, reconnecting a fragile past with a vivid present casting questions over the future. He creates a kind of video-poetry which summons the voice of the lost. Deftly contrasting static imagery and moving footage, his work recalls its basis in frames per second, through which Hirakawa questions and in turn plays with our sense of time. Hirakawa constructs his artworks as if to reveal hidden memories or narratives contained within the subject, resuscitating sensibilities that may have since been obscured, primarily through progressive human activity...
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Youki Hirakawa is a Japanese contemporary artist born in Nagoya, Japan in 1983. He currently lives and works in Toyota, Japan, following a long residency in Berlin, Germany. He was been invited to show at the '48th International Film Festival Rotterdam' and '65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen' in 2019 and has held solo exhibitions internationally, including Ando Gallery, Tokyo, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, Minokamo City Museum, Japan. Hirakawa has also been invited to exhibit in international art festivals including Digital Art Festival Taipei 2017, International Contemporary Art Festival Kaunas in 2016, Sapporo International Art Festival 2014 and Aichi Triennale 2013. His inaugural solo exhibition ‘Secret Fire’ at Anima Mundi was held in 2016 and his follow up ‘A River Under Water’ in 2018. In 2017 he was finalist of Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Works are held in numerous public and private collections.
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NEWS
Youki Hirakawa is exhibiting ‘Untitled (Tears)’ alongside Titian, Paul Cézanne, JMW Turner, David Hockney, Fay Godwin, Walker Evans and Simon Starling in ‘From Sky to Sea: Artists and Water’ at the Millennium Gallery, Sheffield.
Mabon’ is the first in an ongoing series of international mixed online exhibitions following this rhythm of the seasons, known as ‘the wheel of the year’. This ‘calendar’ provides a cue for the duration of each show, and inevitably flavours the selection of works presented…
Anima Mundi’s major online international mixed exhibition featuring the work of 40 international artists, is now available to view on our website alongside the online catalogue, images, texts and video…
Offering a unique opportunity for a poetic space to meditate on key issues facing our species and through intricate interconnection our entire planet, at a pivotal turning point in human history.
Anima Mundi are delighted to launch ‘Beyond Ourselves’ a major mixed online exhibition featuring 39 international artists.
Despite it’s current public closure, the virtual tour of ‘Celebrating 800 years of Spirit and Endeavour’ at Salisbury Cathedral, goes live, 800 years to the day since the first foundation stones of the Cathedral were laid…
'Ode to a Nightingale' is now open online. It was curated in response to the extraordinary crisis moment of lockdown that we find ourselves in and is our most international exhibition to date.
Anima Mundi have been invited to present ‘A Candle' by Youki Hirakawa, alongside 20 important and iconic works of art, by world renowned modern and contemporary artists in the milestone exhibition 'Celebrating 800 years of Spirit and Endeavour’ marking the 800th Anniversary of Salisbury Cathedral, its largest contemporary art exhibition for nearly two decades.
Anima Mundi have been invited to present ‘A Candle' by Youki Hirakawa, alongside 20 important and iconic works by world renowned artists, including Tony Cragg, Martin Creed, Barbara Hepworth, Elisabeth Frink, Antony Gormley, Bill Woodrow, Grayson Perry, Eduardo Paolozzi, Mark Wallinger, Henry Moore, Conrad Shawcross and Lynn Chadwick…
The Greater Taipei Biennial of Contemporary Art opens from 21/11/2018 until 20/1/2019 at Our Museum, Nine Single Arts Practice Space, Northern Art Village, Taipei
Anima-Mundi are delighted to announce that Youki Hirakawa’s ‘Nitrate Dreams’ opened at the Pola Museum, Japan on 30th September and continues until 2nd December 2018
Youki Hirakawa’s ‘Two Hearts Lost in the Darkness, Two Eyes to not See’ opened at Carme Brescia Art Centre, Italy from 14 September until 14 October, 2018
Youki Hirakawa's 'A River Under Water' opened on Saturday, 8th September at Anima-Mundi. Word has been travelling since with the exhibition receiving large audiences and great acclaim.
From 18th November to 24 December 2017, Youki Hirakawa will be presenting a solo exhibition 'The Better Way Back to the Soil' in Taipei, Taiwan.
Anima-Mundi curate ‘From Silence’ at Herrick Gallery, Mayfair