Biography

What does photography accumulate, and what does it lose, through the repeated recording of light and shadow? TSUTSUMI Asano is a photographer who explores this question through In progress, an ongoing series begun in 2023. The series begins with the photographing of a model space of Tsutsumi's own construction. The resulting works, once exhibited, are then illuminated and photographed again as prints. In this repetitive process, images undergo generation and erasure simultaneously. With each exhibition, the light and shadow of the gallery space are absorbed into the next stage of production, and the work continues to be renewed.

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EDUCATION

2014

Arts University Bournemouth, Photography, Bournemouth, UK

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

Reappearing 'In progress', PHOTO GALLERY FLOW NAGOYA, Nagoya

2024

Reframing 'In progress', PHOTO GALLERY FLOW NAGOYA, Nagoya

2023

In progress, KG+2023, gallery metabo, Kyoto

2019

Landscape, KG+2019, ONE AND ONLY gallery approach, Kyoto

2018

Light Experiment, Dohjidai Gallery Collage, Kyoto

Light and Form, KG+2018, cumono gallery, Kyoto

2017

Into the Void, KG+2017, Le Petit Mec OMAKE, Kyoto

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2026

Lived Photography: A Dialogue of Light, Space, and Perception, gallery Unfold, Kyoto

2023

Mending the World in Hollow Form, gallery KURENBOH, Tokyo

2020

Phenomenology of Hope Virtual Exhibition, SUPERCOLLIDER, Los Angeles, USA

2017

The Scrap, Seoul, South Korea

Kyoto Photography Biennale, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto

Photography and Lecture Studies / Photos Toyama 2017, Toyama Shimin Plaza, Toyama

2016

Dohjidai Indépendants, Dohjidai Gallery, Kyoto

2014

Turf, Bargehouse Oxo Tower Wharf, London, UK

Stage, Six Gallery, Bournemouth, UK

PUBLICATIONS

2018

KG+2018 Booklet (back cover)

2017

KG+2017 Booklet

SELECTED PRESS

2018

CAPA, June 2018

2017

New Japan Photo, Issue 3