• 個展「Let There Be Light −光あれ−」Installation view(©︎Bontaro Dokuyama, Photo by Kenji Morita, Courtesy of LEESAYA)/2023
Bontaro Dokuyama

毒山 凡太朗

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After the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011 and the accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the situation in his hometown of Fukushima changed completely, and he started producing works. He creates videos and installations by investigating past memories and places that have been tossed about by the times and social conditions and forgotten, as well as problems and phenomena that are difficult to see in modern society. A work that is created by going to a certain event, listening to the voices of the parties involved, and intervening in the process, presents the possibility that anyone can become a party in an unpredictable moment in today's world. to the audience. By confronting the past and examining what has or has not been left behind, she sheds light on the memories and emotions of people who have spilled over from history, as well as the reality that may be buried in the future. .

Bontaro Tokuyama _CV