WORKS

In recent years, photography and video have become commonplace as personal recording media, and an environment in which others’ experiences and memories are instantly shared via the web and social media has become firmly established. These changes have transformed the very nature of how memories are preserved and recalled, significantly narrowing the distance between time and experience. At the same time, Yoshitaka Nanjo’s work draws heavily on landscapes experienced firsthand through physical presence at the site. Urban spaces like Kyoto, where human activities have accumulated in layers over a long period, and sites such as the salt fields in Sakaide City or the underground tunnels on the Noto Peninsula—where the relationship between people and the land has been deposited over varying time scales—each possess a unique sense of place. Nanjo constructs pictorial spaces that encapsulate history and memory by combining images selected from his own photographs, past paintings, and archival materials with soil and pigments derived from those specific locations. By superimposing their own memories onto these works, viewers experience the landscape as more than a mere reproduction; it emerges as a catalyst for traversing time. In addition to paintings, this exhibition features installations that intertwine static and fluid time, presenting the art gallery itself as a landscape.