ISHIJIMA Motoki
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.
Graduation Selection, Kanazawa Art gummi (Ishikawa), 2025
KUMA experiment - Polyphony, KUMA Foundation Gallery (Tokyo), 2024
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