Out of Disorder (everything is constantly changing)
Born in Hiroshima in 1975.
Iwasaki’s numerous installations made of commodities and wasted disused items, evoke microscopic scenes.
In Japan, he has shown works in exhibitions such as “Roppongi Crossing 2007: Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art” (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo) and “Yokohama Triennale 2011: OUR MAGIC HOUR” (Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa). He has also participated in numerous international exhibitions including “la Biennale de Lyon” (France) in 2009, and “Double Vision - Contemporary Art from Japan” (Russia / Israel, 2012).
In 2017, he represented Japan at the 57th Venice Biennale with the exhibition, “ Turned Upside Down, Its’s a Forest”.
2012/towel, cotton, hair
Viewers realize that the white miniature landscape in the glass container is made symmetrical with the actual landscape seen from the window, of Momoshima’s shape and the shipyard on the other side. Materials used in the maquette are everyday items. The mountain surface is made up of pieces of cotton and towels, hair forms the power poles and the shipyard’s crane. The island‘s slowly changing scenery and the memories of people are preserved in this work of Iwasaki’s.