Lyota Yagi

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Lyota Yagi was born in 1980 and graduated from Kyoto University of the Arts. He currently lives and works in Kyoto, Japan. He focuses on sound art, sculpture, video and interactive installations. The artist strives to break the limits of human perception and learning attitudes by thinking dialectically, and advocates the discovery of content that is beyond the norm. He reorganizes and forms a completely new order of existing objects and established systems, thus inspiring the viewer's perceptual and functional experience.

With the beginning of the information era, media constantly penetrates in all fields. In order to avoid following the mainstream, Lyota Yagi adapts an information archaeological and anthropological perspective, as well as his personal humor. He creates profound and even romantic interpretations and references to the media of the "pre-information age". Yagi’s works concentrate on the five senses and time. In recent years, he has even explored to the realm of "geological time”, and juxtaposed and reconstructed the relationship between different medias. From the CDs and tapes, things that are out of our sights at the moment, to the petroglyphs and stone sculptures of the Lascaux Caves, papers and tapes live in symbiosis, stonewares and prints dance in unison. The artist uses a contemporary rebellion to work against the instincts of indoctrination. The art will transcend time and medium. Creativity always enlights us to learn and reflect on the unknown of the "past”, and to gain an artistic perspective to re-examine the medium and media.