Sagawa's expression can be seen as an attempt to renew the relationship between “language and art” in contemporary art through an intensely physical approach.

In conceptual art, considered the root of contemporary art, language functioned as a “record of thought.”

However, Sagawa materializes intensely emotional words that everyone likely felt in their youth—such as “Release,” “Heart-pounding,” and “You and Me”—into massive sculptures.

And the act of carrying these works himself, performing in locations like Mount Fuji, Yakushima Island, Morocco, and New York, resembles a kind of modern “pilgrimage.”

Even the friction arising at the boundaries of daily life—like being scolded by a hot dog vendor in New York for his work interfering with business—becomes part of the “narrative” inherent in the piece.

Within this “pilgrimage,” his recent “Instant Power Spot” project is a critical endeavor to reconstruct the ‘sacredness’ that normally takes ages to form—instantly, using modern lightness and easily accessible “information.”

Transforming the lingering echoes of youth into weighty matter, then carrying it on one's own body to make a pilgrimage. Mr. Sagawa's work breathes tangible substance and soul back into the contemporary “words” adrift in the sea of information.

1983 Born in Osaka

2005 Completed Advanced Course, Osaka University of Arts Junior College

Solo Exhibitions

2006 “Shall We Go Soon?” (GALLERY wks./Osaka)

2008 “The Timing Machine” (GALLERY wks./Osaka)

2009 “FUJI ART FESTIVAL'09” (GALLERY Haneusagi / Kyoto)

2010 “Motion and the Brain why” (GALLERY Haneusagi / Kyoto)

2012 “orz” (GALLERY wks. / Osaka)

2015 “ROCKING LIFE” (ART SPACE ZERO-ONE / Osaka)

2016   “Instant” (Note Gallery / Osaka)

2018  “Rocking Life” (Note Gallery / Osaka)

2023  “Instant Power Spot: Bonding” (Shizen Daikan Observatory, Rokko Shidare)

2024  “Instant Power Spot ~Always Listening to Rock ‘n’ Roll~” (Note Gallery / Osaka)

Group Exhibitions

2008 GEISAI♯11 (Tokyo Big Sight / Tokyo)

2009 After School・After-School Exhibition (Former Rissei Elementary School / Kyoto)

2010 Kamihata Art 2010 (Kamihata District, Toga Village, Toyama Prefecture '11)

Art Court Frontier 2010 #8 (Art Court Gallery / Osaka)

2013 Art in Residence (Morocco)

2014 Rokko Meets Art ('18, '19 / Hyogo)

2019 Kyoto International Film Festival (Work displayed on Okazaki Park approach)

2021 “World Lines from Characters” curated by Yoshihiro Sagawa (KUNST ARZT / Kyoto)

2022 “Amagasaki Art Stroll ~ Produced By Rokko Meets Art: Artistic Walk”

2024 “Power Word Exhibition” (Shizen Daikan Observatory, Rokko Shidare)

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