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Yuko Amano | Yuuki Horiuchi

See the Light
March 30 (Wed.) - April 23 (Sat.), 2022
Cooperation by Chie Fukasawa OfficeHagiwara Projects is pleased to present "See the Light," a two-person exhibition by Yuko Amano and Yuuki
Horiuchi, opening on Wednesday, March 30th.

Yuko Amano was born in 1985. As a photographer, she has shown her work in various exhibitions, media,and projects. Amano photographs not only familiar landscapes, but also sometimes goes to snowy moun-tains and remote islands to capture natural landscapes and phenomena. He records fragmentary local
phenomena such as sand floating on river water, ice on trees, rocks and stones, peeling bark, birds perchingon trees, etc., and tries to capture the relationship between the existence of eternal time behind theseimages and the limited, special moment of clicking the shutter. In this exhibition, he will also present for the
first time a work photographed at a table after a meal in a monastery in Europe. The artist's earnest andpowerful gaze is directed at the lives of people who continue to live against the backdrop of a complicatedhistory.

Horiuchi was born in 1990. She is currently living and working in London as an overseas trainee of the PolaArt Foundation. Horiuchi expresses herself through a variety of methods, including painting, photography,video, and installation, by looking at things around her and phenomena in the natural world from a relative
perspective and trying to capture the universality inherent in them. It is an act of discovering the moment inwhich an ordinary moment in one's life, such as the color of the sky looking up or the pattern of asphalt under

one's feet, is connected to a universal phenomenon, and can be said to be an attempt to explore the stateof the world. This exhibition will feature a colorful display of recent two-dimensional works, as well as newlarge-scale paintings that represent a new challenge for the artist.

The title of this exhibition, "See the Light," means "to find the light" or "to know the truth of things. Amano

expresses the truths and unspoken thoughts that one feels when confronting the world by photographing themoments when he confronts nature and people's activities, while Horiuchi captures the universal essence
that emerges incidentally in the context of relationships with various events, and depicts a sliver of it. Despite
their different methods, these two artists pursue the same truth. Please come and see their respective
expressions that have been sharpened to the invisible.

1-13-6-1F Tokiwa, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0006 Japan
T/F: +81 (0)3 6300 5881 E: info@hagiwaraprojects.com
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Yuko Amano“Gračanica”
2019, c-print

Yuko Amano

Born 1985 in Ibaraki, Japan. 2010 Completed the photography course at Musashino Art University's Graduate School of Art and Design, majoring in design. Major solo exhibitions include "seaside" Midori.so2 gallery(2015, Tokyo) , "unknown | renown" G/P gallery (2013, Tokyo). Major group exhibitions include "BAIR retrospective exhibition" Center424 (2021, Belgrade, Serbia), "Story of the Earth" Sapporo Odori Underground

Gallery, 500m Museum of Art, (2019, Sapporo), "L'esprit parfaitement clair" mcd (2018, Lille, France), "ZONADYNAMIC at GlogauAIR "THE VOICE OF DOXA" GlogauAIR (2016, Berlin, Germany), "Open studio "NEWPALALLELIA" with Yang Gi Cheng" Cite Internationale des Arts (2017, Paris, France), "Camera Knows
Everything" HAGIWARA PROJECTS (2015,Tokyo) In 2020, participated in "Tetsuya Umeda in Beppu 'O-tai'"

as a photographer. Major awards include the Musashino Art University Paris Prize in 2017 and the 3rd
Photography "1_WALL" in 2010.

Yuuki Horiuchi“creation”
2021
watercolor on paper
19.3 x 29 cm

Yuuki Horiuchi

Born in Nara, Japan in 1990, Completed master's degree in oil painting at Tokyo National University of Fine
Arts and Music in 2018. Currently studying at University College London and Slade School of Art, Universityof London, England as a Pola Art Foundation overseas trainee. Major solo exhibitions include "Parallel

World" NOHGA HOTEL Ueno (2020, Tokyo), "Imitation. Fire. Place" Central Saint Martins, University of theArts (2018, London). Major group exhibitions include "Light of My World" the former GINZU Building (2021,Kyoto), "Print Action: Cannot be Echoed" the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (2021, Tokyo), "SuperFlatland" at White Conduit Projects (2020, London), "Gunsei Kodama Gallery (2019,Tokyo), "May," Non-Exclusive Studio, (2019,Tokyo), "London Summer Intensive Showcase," Camden Art Center (2019, London,UK), "Speech Bubble," Alte Handelsschule (2018, Leipzig, Germany), "Pn -Powers of PLAY-" The University

Art Museum Chenretsukan, Tokyo University of the Arts (2018, Tokyo), "Helen at the Mountain" Tetsuo'sGarage (2018,Nikko), etc.