P⁴ (Pioneer Plants Printing Projects)
This installation’s concept has materialized from “our” sense of belonging in urban spaces and the emotions associated with our footprints, using the pioneer plant, the Japanese mallotus, as a metaphor. These plants are 3D prints in their raw state, partially corrupted in its data processing and exhibited as they are. The whole appearance of this work will(may) change over the course of the exhibition. Nature in an urban environment happens far beyond our human activities. The weeds that I generate in my work are, so to speak, the unstable boundaries of this reality.
Rui MIZUKI
Born 1983. Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, Department of Crafts, majoring in lacquer ware, and also holds a doctorate in Media Art, Graduate School of Arts, from the same university. Mizuki’s work revolves on the entanglement of landscapes, scenes, bodies, and things grounded in the realism of contemporary cities. Recent exhibitions include ” All About the Young” (Hanbey-Fu Gojo Building 2F, Kyoto, 2023), “Seeing as through touching: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 19” (Tokyo Photographic Arts Museum, 2022), and “ON: Objects and Bodies, from the Point of Contact” (Kiyosu City Haruhi Museum of Art, Aichi, 2022).
In cooperation with: Yokoito Additive Manufacturing