Represented

Hiroaki Morita森田浩彰

Born in Fukui, Japan, 1973. Lives and works in Saitama. Completed the B-Semi Schooling System in 1998, and the graduate program (MA Fine Art) at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2002. Hiroaki Morita is an artist who excavates overlooked phenomena and events embedded in daily life and reconstructs them into new contexts using unique methods. Ever since his school years, Morita has been creating minimal sculptures, adding just a bit of modification to his materials. For example, he created a sculpture by putting Pepsi into a Coca Cola bottle, a performance in which he replaced Evian water with Volvic, and a sculpture composed of a slowly rotating circular mirror — all of these works are driven by nonsensical and yet very charming and original ideas. In works such as the animation "Clockwise," in which everyday items are used to count 24 hours, and "Time Quake," an installation of 24 fluorescent lights suspended in a grid formation from the ceiling, abstracting his experience of the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, Morita plays along with standard time, experimenting with the notion of time by stopping and sometimes expanding it.

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