Artist : Youki Hirakawa
Title : Frozen Leaf
Medium : single channel 4K video, 7 min, silent


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‘Frozen Leaf’. is poetic, single channel, silent, 7 minute video of a leaf slowly glistening until all frozen water gradually evaporates, eventually rendering the image of the leaf no longer visible.

Youki Hirakawa is a Japanese artist born in Nagoya, Japan in 1983. He currently lives and works in Toyota, Japan, following a long residency in Berlin, Germany. He was invited to show at the ‘48th International Film Festival Rotterdam’ and ‘65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen’ in 2019 and has held solo exhibitions internationally, including Ando Gallery, Tokyo, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, Minokamo City Museum, Japan. Hirakawa has also been invited to exhibit in international art festivals including Digital Art Festival Taipei, International Contemporary Art Festival Kaunas, Sapporo International Art Festival and Aichi Triennale. His inaugural solo exhibition ‘Secret Fire’ at Anima Mundi was held in 2016 and his follow up ‘A River Under Water’ in 2018. He was finalist of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize and was recently included in ‘Spirit & Endeavour’ to celebrate 800 years of Salisbury Cathedral. alongside Craigie Aitchison, Sir Tony Cragg, Martin Creed, Barbara Hepworth, Elisabeth Frink, Antony Gormley, Bill Woodrow, Bruce Munro, Grayson Perry, Eduardo Paolozzi, Mark Wallinger, Henry Moore, Conrad Shawcross and Lynn Chadwick. Works are held in numerous public and 
private collections.