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About Artist

Taro Karibe | 苅部太郎

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Born in Aichi in 1988, based in Tokyo. His practice is grounded in questioning the black box structures that govern how we see. Taking as its point of departure the circular system in which optical technology, data and media, and the institution of visual perception mutually constitute one another, his work engages with the invisible systems embedded in photography and society at large. After working across psychology, infectious disease prevention, finance, and IT, he began his career as a photojournalist. He now employs technologies such as generative AI as a "metaphysical camera," at times deliberately misusing them to unsettle the institutions of seeing.

Selected solo exhibitions include Anatomy of Caves, HECTARE (2024); Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean, Mynavi Art Square (2024); Electric Caveman, HECTARE (2023); Age of Photon / INCIDENTS, IMA gallery (2020).

Group exhibitions include Auckland Festival of Photography (New Zealand, 2024), Asama International Photo Festival (2023), Platform 29.8, ANB Tokyo (2022), KG+ SELECT (2021), and LUMIX MEETS / BEYOND 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #6, shown at Photo Saint Germain, Paris; Unseen, Amsterdam; and IMA gallery, Tokyo (2019).

Awards and selections include JAPAN PHOTO AWARD, Elisa Medde Prize (2024) and TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD, Takashi Kawashima Prize (2022).

His work is held in the collection of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.

1988年愛知生まれ、東京在住のアーティスト/写真家。「見る」ことを支配するブラックボックスの構造を問い直すことを実践の核とする。光学技術、データとメディア、視覚認識の制度が相互に構成し合うその循環を起点に、写真や社会に埋め込まれた不可視のシステムを扱う。心理学、感染症予防、金融、ITの領域を横断した後、報道写真家として活動を開始。画像生成AIなどのテクノロジーを「形而上のカメラ」として、ときに意図的に誤用しながら、見る制度を揺さぶる。

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主な個展に「Anatomy of Caves」HECTARE(2024)、「Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean」Mynavi Art Square(2024)、「Electric Caveman」HECTARE(2023)、「Age of Photon/ INCIDENTS」IMA gallery(2020)など。

グループ展にAuckland Festival of Photography(NZ、2024)、浅間国際フォトフェスティバル(2023)、「Platform 29.8」ANB Tokyo(2022)、KG+ SELECT 2021(2021)、「LUMIX MEETS/ BEYOND 2020  BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #6」(パリ/Photo Saint Germain・アムステルダム/ Unseen・東京/ IMA gallery、2019)など。

主な受賞・選出にJAPAN PHOTO AWARD・Elisa Medde賞(2024)、TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD・川島崇志賞(2022)など。

作品は東京都写真美術館に収蔵されている。

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