The medium becomes subject and the subject becomes medium. All climate presupposes this constant topological inversion, this oscillation that undoes the border between subject and environment, a role-reversing oscillation. Mixture is not simply the composition of elements but this precise relationship of topological exchange. Mixture is what defines the state of fluidity. […] The structure of universal circulation is fluid, the place where everything comes into contact with everything else and comes to mix with it without losing its form and its own substance.

   EMANUELE COCCIA (2019). The Life of Plants

In my paintings, these elements of the thoughts and bodies, ideas and matter, oblivion and phenomena, blind spots and visual perception, and pages and space are not in a relationship of contiguity but in a mutual compenetration. Like the atmosphere (=fluid) that surrounds plants, the whole environment in which the painting is placed can merge with the painting itself, and the painting creates the space (=fluid).

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1985  Born in Aichi, Japan

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Haruka Hirai official site

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