Hirotoshi Iwasaki draws original pictures with charcoal or pencils, and creates film works. There are the film works created from several original pictures and the film works created by erasing and adding lines on one original picture. These expand another poetic world within a black and white world, and it gives us the impression of another time and space.

“This artwork was expanded from the scenery of white smoke rising from many beds which appeared in my dream. I was influenced by “Dream of Butterfly” by Chuang-tzu during my work creation, and filmed the conflict between dreams and reality. Although I was not thinking who the sleeping man in the film was, he mysteriously had much resemblance to my grandfather in the end.”
-Hirotoshi Iwasaki

Hirotoshi Iwasaki born 1981, Japan. 2006 B.A. in department of Interaction Design, Tama Art University, Japan. 2008 M.A. in Inter Media Art course, Graduate school of Fine Art, Tokyo University of Arts. 2010 Invited from ANIMAC international animation film festival of Catalonia, Spain. 2010 Grand Prize of Image Forum Festival “Japan Tomorrow”, Japan.

* The text provided by Gallery Terra Tokyo.

Opened dates: October 16 - November 13, 2010