KURACHI Tomonosuke
Photo by Kaori NISHIDA
KURACHI Tomonosuke
Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1997, lives in Tokyo
2024 Completed Department of New Media, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts.
KURACHI Tomonosuke creates video installations based on critical views on entertainment, in which he directs and plays the leading role. He appropriates well-known forms of entertainment like TV dramas, music videos, or movies and slickly provokes laughter by imitating them, which he sees as an act of primitive exaggeration. His set and costume designs reflect everyday objects and they are made instantly. In this way, he converts the daily sphere into an amusing arena. Through improvising rhythmic vocalisations, he exposes absurdity out of meaning or meaninglessness. KURACHI asks himself questions about the nature of postmodern entertainment and humanity, practising artistic expression originated in laughter.
“Pavilion ZERO,” Kasai Rinkai Park (Tokyo), 2025
Solo exhibition “Okra Neighbor,” BUoY (Tokyo), 2024
“ANTEROOM TRANSMISSION Vol. 3 - 24/7” (Seoul), 2024