Born in Japan, Takayuki Hara’s work is concerned with moments: the moments we inhabit now and we have experienced in the past as well as the moments which are forgotten in modern, everyday life.
We are constantly surrounded by images in an age of immediate information. Hara’s work begins by detaching narratives from original sources, and personalising, simplifying, and altering them until intimate moments show through. Although his selection of source materials varies, and no narratives are intentionally created, the works seem to have a story as new narratives are born. A certain feeling can be found, but not coherently, like remains of daydreams, in which you never know what is coming next. The glimpse of a particular moment we find in reality may take us back to a certain stage of our lives and this could be forgotten in a split second as we blink. His work is concerned with those moments, and that is what puts his work in the context of broader narratives.
By developing the characteristics of a magpie, by taking the most precious nuggets of this era, the artist is able to travel through his own past as well as the present, holding the gems of lost moments and yearning for what we all have lost, to draw a mysterious, unknown future.
Takayuki Hara graduated from City and Guilds London Art School and has been in many group exhibitions include Obsession, and Notting Heaven at Sartorial Contemporary Art. He currently lives and works in London.
FoolishPeople present 'A Red Threatening Sky'
11th – 20th February 2010 7:30pm, 8.30pm & 9.30pm
Tickets: ClubAethereus.com 07597576075
The Old Abattoir, 187-211 St. John’s St, Clerkenwell, London. EC1V 4LS
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