Projects
Mending Landscapes ・ (2021 - 2025)
Explores the influence of Latin American migration in Japan through visual methods in the neo-rural landscapes and the historical connections between them. Photowalks and photo-elicitation interviews in Joso city helped to understand community dynamics and offered insights into how migrant communities interact, adapt, and influence their environments.
Mending Landscapes has been exhibited and presented at Siggraph Asia, the 20DC, 19DC, and the 18DC Exhibitions at the University of Tsukuba, the What is an image? of the IVSA2022 conference at Kunstmatrix here, Connecting & Sharing – Envisioning the Futures of Visual Literacy, at the IVLA2022 conference.
Camera & Tsukuba Obscura ・ (2021)
A Time Lab/McLeod Lab Project. Traditionally, the camera obscura image is upside down; however, it is also possible to "correct" the image with further optical instruments (e.g., the Bonfoton UP). These works were presented as an intervention at the T+ Gallery, University of Tsukuba.
Lima 478 ・ (2013)
"Lima 478" explored the territory, identity, and urban landscape of Lima in commemoration of the 478th anniversary of its foundation through assemblages. Offering a unique vision of the city's different neighborhoods, fusing past and present constructions. Through the work, a city in constant movement is evident, sometimes blurred or almost abstract, and others clearly defined by colors and shapes.
The project reinterpreted Lima's transformation processes, highlighting its cultural richness and diversity, using materials such as MDF, foam, and structural cardboard with digital prints. "Lima 478" was exhibited in Lima's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
City Toy ・ (2012)
City Toy transforms the city of Lima into fantasy structures that evoke jigsaw puzzles, creating different cities from the same pieces. His assemblages, made from photographs and drawings of Lima mounted on structural cardboard, are non-fixed, transformable structures that vary over time, reflecting the dynamic nature of an actual city. The project includes a photographic series that documents the entire creative process, offering a unique vision of Lima that defies traditional outlines.
Civitas ・ (2011)
Civitas proposed a reinterpretative look of two-dimensionality by combining photography, drawing, printmaking, and digital collage to create chaotic and changing urban images based on the city of Lima. Through cropped and juxtaposed layers, it offered the viewer a new perspective.
Works of this project were exhibited at the Carré d'Art Gallery of the Alianza Francesa in Lima, Peru, the Canvas Gallery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and their assemblages were selected by the French Embassy in Peru as finalists for the "Pasaporte para un Artista" national contest and exhibition at the art gallery of the CCPUCP in Lima.
