Hiroyuki Masuyama

In this three-channel video, the artist portrays his family and self to capture the atmosphere surrounding his private environment and the ephemeral nature of life. Each portrait passes through a chronological sequence of photographs, from 1968 to 1994 and from 1995 to 2001. The subjects’ eyes never move as the years pass, but their faces are clearly beginning to age. The videos’ semi- transparent quality suggests the fading nature of memory over time. Through the layering of these family images, Masuyama reduces the physical and psychological transformations experienced across one’s life to a mere 30 seconds.

Hiroyuki Masuyama was born in 1968 in Tsukaba, Japan. He lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music and the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts. He has exhibited at the Salo Art Museum (Finland), Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE), and Kunsthaus Zürich (Switzerland). He is included in the Imago Mundi collection “Contemporary Japanese Artists”.