Daisuke Takeya

he/him

Ishinomaki, Japan/ Toronto, Canada

Performance title: To the Clouds
Photo credit He Libin

Interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto and Ishinomaki, whose practice is comprised of the exploration of nature and plausibility in contemporary society, and hinges on all kinds of double meanings. The duality of his approach is reflected by his life spent in Asia and North America, in juxtaposing and intermingling milieu of disparate and diverse cultural contexts such as critical social and environmental issues. Combining fields of painting, performance art, sculpture, photography, installation, and curatorial praxis, his work emphasizes process in terms of creativity, production, and collaboration, and attempts to approach an understanding of contexts and environments. Its primary characteristic is that putting himself in a particular place is the very production process.