Current
- Dates
- Friday, November 7 - Friday, November 20, 2025 11:00～19:00
Michihiro Kuroda Profile
Born in Miyazaki Prefecture in 1987. After graduating from the Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences, College of Art and Design, Musashino Art University, he worked as a freelance video editor, editing advertising videos such as web commercials and exhibition films. In 2016, he joined the Faculty of Art and Culture at Onomichi City University, where he currently serves as Associate Professor in the field of Visual Design.
In recent years, his practice has focused on photographing seascapes and creating works based on the theme of "visualizing time," primarily through exhibitions featuring video installations.
His major exhibitions include Media Ambition Tokyo 2014 (Roppongi Hills, Tokyo City View), Changwon Asia Art Festival (Changwon, South Korea, 2016), and Tremolo: Matter and Memory (Mihara Arts and Culture Center Popolo, 2022).
Screened works5min 45s
The light and waves of the sea are ever-repeating, yet never appear the same twice. Film can capture a single instant and reproduce that moment again and again. On the one hand, nature is in constant flux; on the other, time is fixed in place. By contemplating the space between these contradictions, I believe film can offer new experiences.
For this exhibition, I present two works that explore the relationship between the sea and time.
"HIKARI NAGI" ーQuiet Shine－
This video work was filmed around Kosagi Island in Mihara City, Hiroshima Prefecture.
For just about two hours after sunrise, the sea glitters in the sunlight—at times with a gentle shimmer, at times with a radiant brilliance. Though this transformation repeats every day, it never looks the same, shaped by the conditions of the waves and sky, and overlapping with the movements of boats carrying people's lives.
The performance of piano and cello translates particles of light and the undulations of the waves into sound, enriching the calm moments of the Seto Inland Sea. Through the union of shifting scenery with music, fleeting instants are preserved as timeless moments.
the Rays of Waves
This work was created at an art museum housed in a former branch school on Matsushima, off the coast of Shimotsui in Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture. The sight of the sunset reflecting on the harbor's surface and streaming through the classroom windows is a fleeting moment one can only encounter by being present in this place.
By layering the rhythm carved by the waves with the traces of light, the work seeks to connect the memories and time of the children who once attended this school with the quiet scenery that now flows through the present.
Hidetoshi Koizumi・Ryuta Tomiyama Profile
Ryuta Tomiyama
Media artist and VJ. Specializing in motion graphics and real-time data visualization, he creates live performances using a unique method of capturing sound, movement, brainwaves, and environmental information on the spot and transforming them into visuals that exist only in that moment. Since 2023, he has been producing works independently, and in 2024 began collaborating with electronic musician Hidetoshi Koizumi. Together, they create live stage visuals, music videos, and works in the field of art.
Screened works
Not all who wander are lost.12min 20s
We do not look back. Each day, we keep our eyes facing forward. Yet we cannot say for certain whether life itself is truly moving ahead. The more we ask ourselves, "Am I really making progress?" the deeper the uncertainty grows. Still, our feet carry us onward—
as if a destination were already in sight,
as if fleeing from something unseen.
There is no hesitation in our steps, even though we do not know what awaits us at the end of the path.
Yukiko Sugino Profile
Born in 1970 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. Youngest of four siblings.
Began studying modern dance at the age of three, and later graduated from the Dance Department of Japan Women's College of Physical Education Junior College. Self-taught in photography, she began shooting portraits for magazines and other media. After a hiatus of about ten years, she returned to photography, starting with Instagram on her iPhone.
Exhibitions
- March 2023
- The Turtle in Room 1, Kannai Ekichika Gallery, Yokohama
- April 2023
- The Turtle in Room 1, galerie SPUR, Osaka
- June 2023
- Treasure Box, Gallery Hommage, Osaka
- September 2024
- Sukitooru (Translucent), Kamado no Shita no Hai Made Gallery, Wakayama
- January 2025
- Swim, Gola Gallery, Milan
- November 2025
- Art Event "Room" (title TBD), Nara
Screened works
Sukitooru (Translucent)13min 04s
This work was woven together during the days when, after being diagnosed with an intractable illness, I gradually lost the ability to do what I once could.
At a time when I could not imagine continuing to live as before, the act of piecing together the life I had lived until then became an essential process for me.
Yesterday, that day, and today are all connected.
I was always searching for something each day, trying to be happy.
And I find comfort in realizing that there was never a single day when I set out to be unhappy.
When this film was shown in Milan, a girl wept and said, "My mother must have been that sad back then, too."
It was then I realized: "Yes, I was that sad as well."
I told the girl, "Thank you for helping me see that."
Everyone carries the life they have lived up to today.
No matter what kind of yesterday, no matter what kind of tomorrow, it is still part of who you are, and that will never change.
So when life feels unbearable, please try to weave together the story of your own life so far.
Riru Nakayama Profile
- Born in 2000,
- from Kunimi, Fukushima Prefecture.
- 2022
- BFA in Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo Zokei University
- 2024
- MFA in Intermedia Art, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
Group Exhibitions
- 2022
- Moyai・next, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa
- 2023
- 2nd Yaginome Biennale: If I Were a Goat, Taiken Bijutsuba VIVA, Ibaraki
Solo Exhibitions
- 2023
- Searching for Diamonds, Kokoshiba Wall Gallery, Saitama
Screened works
Connect11min 28s
I was born in Fukushima Prefecture, where my family runs a poultry farm.
Our farm is located near the border with Miyagi Prefecture, some distance from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. There is no physical barrier at that border. Yet simply being a poultry farm in "Fukushima" created various hardships. In this work, I convey how my family thought and acted at that time.
Through this work, I also hope to encourage viewers to form their own opinions. When topics such as the earthquake and nuclear power come up, many people stop thinking, saying, "I wasn't directly affected," or—even if they have opinions—find it difficult to voice them. But who exactly counts as a "directly affected person"?
Even people living far overseas who felt sorrow when they saw the news might also be considered affected. That is why I believe it is important first to share my own experiences, and those around me, as one of the many stories within the Great East Japan Earthquake. By combining this single story with the viewer's own experiences from that time, I hope to prompt reflection on both the disaster and nuclear power.
This marks the seventh short film exhibition presented by Sony Imaging Gallery. The exhibition invites submissions of short films under fifteen minutes through an open call, and the gallery plans and organizes the selected works as a group exhibition. For example, the 2022 Akira Ibi / Tani +1 / Keren Zhao / Kentaro Fukuda Short Film Exhibition - The Flow of Time and the Wind was planned and organized as a group exhibition with a focus on landscapes, the changing seasons, and wildlife. In past editions, there have always been certain shared themes or sensibilities among the participating artists.
In contrast, the current exhibition, Michihiro Kuroda / Hidetoshi Koizumi & Ryuta Tomiyama / Yukiko Sugino / Riru Nakayama Short Film Exhibition -
G. F. E. G., reveals no clearly defined common thread among the four participating artists. Each work will evoke different words, images, and sensations in the minds of viewers.
In Michihiro Kuroda's works, some viewers may find themselves simply captivated by the beauty of endlessly repeating ripples. Others may feel a sensation as if time itself were flowing backward.
The duo of Hidetoshi Koizumi and Ryuta Tomiyama has created a film in which a forward-moving image unfolds through a series of repeated transitions. The light generated by people walking alongside or passing one another resembles countless points of illumination seen from an airplane at night. It evokes the thought that innumerable strangers live their own lives within the same era, each carrying something within them.
In Yukiko Sugino's work, a quiet journey unfolds as two travelers make their way toward the farthest horizon. Though tinged with a sense of solitude, the special smile that appears at the end seems to say, "I will never forget."
Riru Nakayama's work records, with quiet persistence, the words of her family as they struggled to sustain countless small lives amid the dangers of radiation following the nuclear accident and the loss of drinking water caused by the earthquake. At the same time, the work itself embodies Nakayama's act of sharing the experiences of her family and community with a wider audience.
Some photographers have said that "film uses story, sound, and camera work to guide viewers toward what the creator wants them to feel, whereas photography does not‐it should be received just as the viewer feels it." The works of these four filmmakers bring that idea to mind, reminding us that there are also films meant to be received as they are felt. If each viewer can feel, reflect, and carry away something personal from these experiences, nothing would make us happier.