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Kyushu Sangyo University Graduate School of Fine Arts Photo Exhibition Prism

A prism is an optical element used to disperse and refract light. When light shines through a prism, bands of light of colors such as red, blue and purple appear at different wavelengths. Like this prism, we use the camera as a tool to capture and express the world in various ways, even though we are all looking at the same thing.

This exhibition features photographs by seven students enrolled in the Department of Art Expression, Graduate School of Arts, Kyushu Sangyo University. The expression includes capturing the world from a broad perspective, taking pictures by sticking to a single place or object and trying to capture something that does not appear in the real world.

We hope that the visitors will freely interpret and enjoy the world that these seven students present.

Itinerant
丁 柯元 DING KEYUAN

Birthplace: Shandong Province, China

Exhibitions

2023
180 Seconds: The Light Escaped from My Eyes, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Between all of the worlds, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Island Life by the Sea, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Yihe River Summer, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2024
Vague days, Fukuoka Art Museum

The dam in the photo shows a fusion of natural elements and man-made structures, manifesting an interactive relationship between humans and the natural environment. Itinerant includes three concepts: repetition of time and space, human circularity, and flux and change.
Repetition of time and space: photographing the same location periodically to document changes, or photographing different subjects or the same subject again and again. This reflects the passage of time and the cycles of nature and demonstrates the impact of the environment on the subject.
Human cyclicality: This cyclicality is manifested in photography and also in the periodicity and repetitiveness of human behavior. People are always performing similar activities at different times and places; this behavior has existed throughout history, reflecting the constant reenactment of human behavior.
Flux and change: The flowing water of a dammed lake symbolizes the fluid changes in nature. As a photographer, I captured the changes in the landscape in a dynamic, powerful and impressive time.

Catalog
凌 雯婷 LING WENTING

Birthplace: Jiangxi, China

Exhibitions

2023
Symbiosis, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
String, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Aimlessly, I decided to take my camera and, with an imaginative mindset, look for the life force that resides within the city, its buildings, and its people. I was a figure like a photographer who had stepped into an unknown jungle, searching for the lively objects that inhabited the jungle.
I learned their habits through the photographs I took and created a catalog of their perception of the world. In this way, I eliminated my fear of the unknown environment that was dotted all around me.

This could be a window
劉 志禹 LIU ZHI YU

Birthplace: Jiangsu Province, China

Exhibitions

2023
This is not a Window, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Hula Hula, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
What do you see, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

When I see a photo exhibition, I usually approach it from two angles: the photographs and the written commentary. Most of the time, we believe the photographs because we simply believe that they capture a moment of reality and that they represent reality.
Unfortunately, however, time and space in the formation of things have a complex relationship; maintaining impartiality and objectivity when extracting events at a given point in time is difficult. I tried to capture a window of truth, a window that would enable me to shed the ambiguity that photography possesses.

Time, Memory
唐 紫云 TAN GZIYUN

Birthplace: Shanghai, China

Exhibitions

2023
A flash is an eternity, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
End, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Washing out 2, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

My hometown, Shanghai, is developing at a dizzying pace. This is my eighth year in Japan; in that time, everything has changed in my hometown except my house. I can't even remember what used to be here. My not knowing my own hometown now terrifies me.
So, I decided that my theme for this project would be that changing times push us forward unilaterally, and that things that have disappeared will exist forever in our memories. Then I photographed my hometown, the land that seems to always be disappearing.

Divinus
王 弈韜 WANG YITAO

Birthplace: Jiangsu Province, China

Exhibitions

2023
Tombstone, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
gap day, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Around the Fire, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2024
of wind Hibiki, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Why do I take pictures of trees?
Trees are living organisms; they do not move, but they are alive.
Trees are everywhere and come in all shapes and sizes.
Trees coexist with living things and have the characteristics of this world.
Trees are silent and beautiful.

Close to you
白石 尚己 NAOKI SHIRAISHI

Birthplace: Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Exhibitions

2022
Newgraphy Fukuoka Expo 2022 Art Book, Over Ground, Fukuoka
2023
Heaven’s poor people, Fukuoka Art Museum

I felt as if I were looking into a mirror, and I could not take my eyes off the mirror as long streaks of light spun and traversed through the darkness, the sound stretching on forever.

The people who appear before me are filled with shadows and rays of light, and I, who have no name, forget my own existence.

Memory of Stone
鄧名傑 DEMG MINE JIE

Birthplace: Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Exhibitions

2023
Window of the Heart, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Like Life, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

The stones and rocks of Penghu are carved with traces of the years, and ancient stone villages can be seen. On this island, fishermen in the old days formed heart-shaped stone weirs using Magnolia compressa and corallite; fishing using the tides is still practiced today.

Each stone house has its own unique texture and color, looking at them was like reading a story. Each indentation and line on each of them was like a diary, continuing to record people's lives from the past to the present.

Location: Penghu County, Taiwan