Sunlight filtering through leaves


Artist: Akihito Ito
Term: December 17 (Tue), 2024 – January 24 (Fri), 2025
Open: Weekday: 9:30-18:30
Close: Weekends, National Holiday, December 30 (Mon), 2024 – January 10 (Fri), 2025

The exhibition presented works that explore the phenomenon of sunlight filtering through leaves through video and painting. The way sunlight passes through the gaps in tree leaves and illuminates the grass below is a dynamic experience that cannot be fully captured by focusing on individual blades of grass or single leaves. It is a sensory experience that arises from the interaction of these elements as a whole. By contrasting video works that attempt to capture this phenomenon through digital image processing, manual techniques, and photography, the exhibition highlighted the impossibility of capturing sunlight filtering through leaves through isolated elements alone.
In our modern lives, are we not often too absorbed in fragmented details, forgetting the comfort of perceiving the whole? This exhibition invited visitors to move beyond the dissection of phenomena and experience them directly, as they are.

Akihito Ito
Since the early 2000s, Ito has explored video installations and collaborated with designers, programmers, and researchers on media art projects, live events, and conference presentations, blending artistic expression with research. He has also contributed extensively to art and design education, teaching as a part-time lecturer at Nagoya University of Arts, Chukyo University, and Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Design at Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology, where he supervises students in the Advanced Art Lab.