Takashi Horisaki’s (b.1974, Tokyo)  work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at locations including the Prospect.1 Biennial in New Orleans; Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden; Queens Museum of Art, NY; Smack Mellon, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Flux Factory Inc, NY; The LAB Gallery, San Francisco; Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery, New Orleans; Murray Guy, NY; the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis; SCOPELondon; and Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis. He is the recipient of awards and residencies including the Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship, the 2008 Urban Artist Initiative/New York City Fellowship, the POLA Art Foundation Grant (2010), and the LMCC Workspace Program (2008/09). Please visit www.takashihorisaki.com for more information. 

My practice is a sculptural exploration of surfaces and the histories contained within their layers. I investigate the interaction of personal histories with the physical traces they leave, touching upon subjects ranging from urban planning and social architectures, to political and environmental crises. Employing materials such as liquid latex, plastic, wood, paper, construction materials, and rudimentary electronics, I design performative systems and object-making processes that become metaphors for the effects of time on our bodies and our environments.

Since it is the stories of the individuals – small-scale histories to which we can all relate – that motivate and shape my object-making, interactivity and conversation is a key aspect of the work. This takes the form of both viewer participation in the exhibition space as well as community participation and exchange during the creation of the work. However, I document these stories selectively, through blogs, journals or video; ultimately my interest does not lie in a language-based history but rather the recording and dissemination of an alternative, physical history through the reproduction of scarred and storied surfaces.