Haruka Yamada

Public Art, Video

Basic profile

Born in Kanagawa, Japan, in 1986. After graduating from Musashino Art University, she studied Space Design and Art at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art et Design de Dijon in France.

Working in urban space as her field, she reconsiders the relationships between the city, nature, and people through walking and interviews, using photography and printing processes, maps, and measurement.

In recent years, she has been developing the sundial project “Sun of the City,” which visualizes a site’s specific temporality through the movement of shadows, and cyanotype works based on time zone maps. Through these works, she questions where the center of time lies and what shapes what we call “correct.” By working within sites in transition, she reveals layered strata of time and traces embedded in the landscape.