Yutaka Inagawa

Inagawa’s distorted assemblages are made from interchangeable found materials and artfully reflect technology’s impact on our daily lives. They merge together before the viewer’s eyes to create semi-organic masses that replicate the ever-expanding landscape of cyberspace. His work Iridescent Shenanigans 02 presents ambiguous elements, reused and repurposed to inhabit a hyper-digital world. Inagawa considers the complications of contemporary society, particularly how it responds to and is shaped by technical advances. For this piece, which is part of a larger series, the artist uses examples of socio-cultural malfunctions and their ramifications as catalysts for a contemporary sublime.

Yutaka Inagawa was born in 1974 in Tokyo. He lives and works in Onomichi, Japan. He studied at Tokyo University of the Arts and Chelsea College of Art, London. He has exhibited at Unit 24 Gallery (London), Gallery Zandari (Seoul), and New Art Center (New York). He is included in the Imago Mundi collections “Contemporary Japanese Artists” and “Hiroshima / Nagasaki.”