Ota Kiyoo

After studying architecture, my interest in society and the economy became stronger, and I left architecture to engage in structured finance work at a financial institution because I wanted to improve Japan and the world.
Construct virtual structures such as currency, logic, and systems.

I experienced the Lehman shock firsthand, and I realized that what I desperately built up with imagination in the financial industry is something that instantly collapses due to external factors, so to speak, “labor” in the relationship between labor and work shown by Hannah Arendt in “human conditions,” and that anyone can do and consume.

I wanted to do a “job” to create works that will last forever even after my death, so I aspired to be an artist.

Using the structure and relationships of society as the theme of the work, I want to improve Japan and the world by differentiating the three-dimensional structure and function of reality to express the essential beauty of things, and by expressing new awareness about the structure and relationships of society.