Shadow of Water

Tetsuya Umeda produces installations that are inspired by and incorporate existing elements found in the environment and circumstances surrounding the exhibition space including its architectural structure. In addition to exhibitions in museums and art institutions, he has produced numerous site-specific works based on the context of both urban spaces and the natural environment. Performance works are presented in Japan and abroad, such as tours inviting the audience to unfamiliar places, stage works focusing on functions found in theaters, and chorus projects without a center point. He is also internationally renowned as a leading artist in the field of sound art.  

Selected performance works include Walk about Water (Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, South Korea, 2024); Riverwalk (KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2022, Kyoto, Japan); Age 0, September (Takatsuki Contemporary Theater, Osaka, Japan, 2022); Composite: Variations / Circle (Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium, 2017); and INTERNSHIP (Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea, 2016; TPAM 2018, KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Yokohama, Japan). 
 

Photo: Tetsuya Umeda, Ringo, 2017. Installation presented at Liveworks Festival at Performance Space, Sydney. Photo: Alex Davies

Video : Wall is over. Installation as part of the solo exhibition On the origin of voices .(02.11.2019 - 13.01.2020) at Fukuoka Art Museum. Video shot by: Yamanaka Shintaro (Qsyum!)