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ISHIJIMA Motoki

《Landing Time: Rain and Shoes》, 2024

《Landing Time》, 2024

《The Unhurried Hand》, 2024

ISHIJIMA Motoki

Born 1998 in Kanagawa, live in Ishikawa
2023 BFA in Sculpture, Kanazawa College of Art
2025 MFA in Sculpture, Kanazawa College of Art

He uses mainly metal as a material to create moving sculptures. His works incorporate the “escapement” structure that has been used in mechanical clocks since the 13th century. While clocks were originally used to improve efficiency and productivity, he has reframed them as “structures for slowing down speed.” As modern society accelerates through technological progress and becomes disconnected from natural perceptions of time, he reconstructs escapement as a device to decelerate time, presenting it as sculpture imbued with paradoxical criticisms of post-modern values of efficiency and productivity.

Major Exhibitions

Graduation Selection, Kanazawa Art gummi (Ishikawa), 2025

KUMA experiment - Polyphony, KUMA Foundation Gallery (Tokyo), 2024

Major Awards

KANABI Creative Award 2024 (Graduation/Thesis Exhibition Division), Guest Judge’s Special Prize, 2024

KANABI Creative Award 2022 (Graduation/Thesis Exhibition Division), President’s Prize, 2022

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