Presented by Riyadh Art and the Royal Commission of Riyadh City
November 28 - December 14, 2024
Curated by Dr. Alfredo Cramerotti and Dr. Effat Fadag
Exhibition Website
Role: Artistic Manager, Curatorial Team
Photographs and text courtesy of Noor Riyadh, Riyadh Art
Takayuki Mori, View Tracing #5 “LABYRINTH”, 2024
Takayuki Mori’s View Tracing #5 “LABYRINTH” (2024) is a multimedia installation that highlights Saudi heritage through cultural objects. The artwork is the latest iteration in his View Tracing series, where the artist combines light and sculpture to create scenes that resemble computer-generated graphics.In this newly commissioned installation for Noor Riyadh, Mori uses 3D models of the falcon, mabkhara (incense burner), dallah (coffee pot) and more to produce 3D-printed objects, which he outlines in fluorescent threads to make them appear two-dimensional. Viewers are invited into a dark room with several maze-like pathways to observe these objects glow under ultraviolet light and imagine their scent, sound and taste.
Through this artwork, Mori illustrates our brain’s tendency to simplify visual data into basic shapes and forms. He hopes his “surface-based” installation in a 3D space will help us understand the world more deeply.
Artist: Takayuki Mori
Title: View Tracing #5 “LABYRINTH
Date: 2024
Medium: 3D printed objects, Threads, Pins, MDF structures
Photography: Courtesy of Riyadh Art, Royal Commission of Riyadh City
Press:
Arab News: https://www.arabnews.jp/en/arts-culture/article_136012/
Architectural Digest Middle East: https://www.admiddleeast.com/gallery/your-guide-to-noor-riyadh-2024-11-spellbinding-highlights-what-to-see
Takayuki Mori (b. 1983, Japan)
Takayuki Mori (b. 1983) is a Japanese visual artist known for his interactive light and multimedia installations. Interested in how our brains process visual information, he uses this curiosity as the basis of his artistic exploration and expression.
Mori challenges our perception through visual manipulation. He works with light and fluorescent threads, which are only visible in ultraviolet light, to explore the relationship between digital and analog, 2D and 3D, and virtual and real spaces.
The Okayama-based artist has exhibited at various art festivals, public spaces and museums, including CYENS Thinker Maker Space in Nicosia, Cyprus, where he held a solo exhibition Memento in 2024 as a result of the residency program he was a part of. His exhibition, Polymeshed, was shown at the Murten Licht-Festival in Murten, Switzerland, in 2023. Mori’s artwork View Tracing #2 won the Special Award at the 23rd Taro Okamoto Award Exhibition in Kanagawa, Japan in 2020.