Umeda Tetsuya
b. 1980, JapanUmeda was born in 1980 in Kumamoto, Japan, living and working in Osaka. His practice, which focuses on the relationship between space and sound through an assemblage of everyday objects, encompasses performances and installations. Umeda’s installations are as much about those sounds as they are about the arrangement of the everyday items he uses. Umeda’s main work is the objects’ performance, which he helps orchestrate but is never in control of.
Every time Umeda creates a work he responds to the characteristics of the space in which the exhibition is to be held, and usually he sources his materials at the venue. Using both light and sound, the works he creates change of time and space, and could be described as unified compositions built on the transformation of familiar objects. He collaborates with musicians using his own originally produced implements. Since 2006 he has held solo exhibitions and performances in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukoka, and Beppu. He has also been included in a number of group exhibitions at several galleries across the globe including, Moscow, Denmark, Vienna, and London.
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