YATAGARASU

I create a wide variety of things using paper and a utility knife. By inventing a unique technique of layering black and white paper, I have established a new way of expressing paper cutting. In 2012, I moved to New York and began my artistic activities. In the same year, I held a solo exhibition at the prestigious Jadite gallery. I was interviewed by the New York Times and received high praise. In recent years, I have won an award at the World Exhibition of Japanese-French Contemporary Art (National Art Center, Tokyo), been selected for the Ecole de Paris exhibition (Place des Vosges, France), and was specially recommended for an exhibition at the Setubal Museum in Portugal, expanding the scope of my activities to the world. I announced a collaborative work with Theseus Chan in Comme des Garçons DM. In 2018, I changed my name from KROUD to Hirano Chiaki. This work consists of a stack of white and black paper with the different cut ends. Humans have created new value by destroying nature only among animals. Insects gained wings in their bodies over 100 million years, but humans demanded new value from the outside by repeating destruction and creation. The value created will be destroyed, and the conversion to new value will begin immediately. This is the new form of evolution chosen by humans. In 2024, looking up at the city of Tokyo, the buildings that were created by the mechanical civilization are raging. It looks as if the city itself is breathing wildly as a life with a will. A creature that expands in a limited space and continues to change its meaning. As Darwin says, organisms that have begun to mutate will mutate without stopping. There is a certain beauty that is never completed. Dissipating energy while being an aggregate of inorganic substances. Tokyo is the evolution of humans.