ARTISTS

Yuna Yagi was born in 1980 and is based in Kyoto.
She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Parsons School of Design. In her activities, which revolve around photography, she produces works that induce a transformation of awareness from multiple perspectives and angles, through experience of the act of seeing. Her main solo exhibitions include The Record of Seeds, which depicted the evanescence and richness of the life force possessed by seeds (KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival, 2021), NOW/HERE (Pola Museum Annex, 2018), and Visual / Cognition / Polarity / Universality (√K Contemporary, 2022). Her main works are the KENCHIKU series (2015), which are 3D objets made of photographs; the Collapsing World series (2016), which was made by applying algorisms to photographs; Space for Prayer (2017), which ponders the Japanese outlook on life and death; the BLANC/BLACK series (2019), which expresses the Buddhist concept of ku (emptiness); and the Superposition series (2024) of still life paintings in photographs. Her main awards include the Hasselbrad Prize Grand Prix (2016) in the Kyotographie Portfolio Review (2016), and nomination for the New Photographer Award in the Town of Photography Higashikawa Awards (2019). Some of her works are in the collection of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.