Born in Kagoshima Prefecture in 1982, Takahashi studied at Tokyo University of the Arts, completing his undergraduate and master’s degrees in the Casting Lab of the Crafts Department, before earning his Ph.D. in Fine Arts (Crafts/Casting) there in 2022. He has also served as a research assistant and part-time lecturer at the university.
Takahashi’s practice centers on his original ‘flower casting’ (hana-ikomi) technique, a development of vacuum pressure casting that replaces fresh flowers with aluminum at a thickness of just 0.1 millimeters. The work began in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake—an experience that pushed him toward a sustained engagement with death, and with the idea of a requiem for what was lost.
His objects sit at the boundary of the organic and inorganic, life and death. Running through them is a continuity of mourning and gratitude that stretches from early human burial rites to the present—a quiet insistence that death is not absence, but part of something larger.
- Section Special Project
- Venue Palazzo Bembo
- Based in Saitama, Japan
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