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Yuka Tsuruno Gallery is a contemporary art gallery that was established in 2009. With its keen attention to concept, context, and quality, the gallery showcases the work of prominent international artists including Candida Höfer and José Parlá, while also nurturing the careers of young artists in Japan working in various media including painting, sculpture, video, photography, and installation. In September 2016, the gallery relocated to a new art complex in the Tennoz district of Tokyo.

Yusuke Yamatani has been creating photographic works not through physical creation but through direct experiences in the world. In handling sand and concrete in the demolition and construction of his new home, he rediscovered the relationship he has with photographic expression. Confronting his discomfort with the way things within frames are accorded an indefinite expanse by the photographer, as well as the confinement of an image, his new sculptural works made from dug-up soil confront the boundary between photograph and reality. These pieces will be part of his exhibition “KAIKOO.”