Takahiro mitani biography
Takahiro mitani biography
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ABOUT
As a photographer, ambient composer, writer, and philosopher, Takahiro Mitsui(1991) has journeyed deeply across Japan, exploring the myths, history, and natural environments imbued in its lands.
He is particularly fixated on "Kunitsukami" - the ancient Japanese faith - philosophically examining the human spirit born from the genius loci of places.
The artist's work is heavily influenced by the philosophical concepts of place and predicativity, originally introduced by Kitaro Nishida and further elaborated by subsequent thinkers, notably Tetsuji Yamamoto, the theories of Kukai, the founder of Shingon Esoteric Buddhism, and the ancient Shinto revival of the Edo period, which sought a return to the primordial Shinto before the advent of religion.
Rejecting the tendency to absolutise the modern subject, he creates works from the perspective that human beings are subordinate to place.
He perceives the modern era as an "endless modernity" and asserts t