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Hart Land

Vacant houses tend to have some belongings left behind, and I visualize who once inhabited the place based on such items.
I painted these objects gray and applied light to them using RGB filters.
While in some sense, this is an act of illuminating the past, we see these vistas from the vantage point of the present, so this is by no means an act of shining a light on the past itself.

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Naoyuki Hata

Born in 1979 in Gifu. Winner of the Grand Prix of the 4th Photography 1_WALL competition in 2011. Graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the Netherlands in 2014. His solo exhibitions include "Pelletron new no. 4" at the Guardian Garden, Tokyo, 2012, and "MEAT MAN" at Beppu Station Market, Oita, 2018. His major group exhibitions include "LUMIX MEETS BEYOND 2020 #7" held in 2009.

Jury selection

The sight seen when rubble, materialized in a flattened form, once again has a certain amount of light shone upon it. An ambitious piece, that forcefully projects to the viewer what is being portrayed.

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• Instagram：＠naoyuki.hata