• Y u p i c A • (Tokyo, Japan)
A Japanese artist living and working in Mexico City.
Following years of career in filmmaking, Yupica sought to evolve what he created on the screen to generate real world sensory experiences to explore contemporary spirituality in the context of a global environs.
Yupica develops installations, objects, painting, prints, and moving images in wide-ranging scales—from microscopic pieces to immersive site-specific projects--
Tools such as animation software, organic and chemical materials to grow mutable forms are used, undetermined malleability inspires a rise above the pre-established concept of self, an evolution toward conscious awareness.
Childhood experiences in suburban Tokyo form substrata of his worldview, most notably animism, the polymorphous potentiality that disregards boundaries between all entities (human, animal, nature, spiritual and artificial beings), instead seeing them as animated and alive, possessing distinctive spirits. The artist is also inspired in part by biology and metaphysics.
Yupica and his team constantly research, experiment and develop their own forms of expression: ricegraph, animated prismatic sculpture, multidimensional projection. One of the most significant of the latter is his “Re-” technique-- thousands of disks made of rice and resin overlapping to build a large-scale moving-image installation.
In 2013, Yupica founded the interdisciplinary collective ChaMeshiJi, which has exhibited throughout Mexico City. Yupica was invited to contribute to the International Festival of Lights in Mexico City (2016), in Merida (2017) in Villahermosa (2019). Each event attracted more than 50,000 visitors.
In addition, Yupica constantly work with architect Alberto Kalach; Reforma27 (2013), Torre41(2014), Templo de las mil velas (2015), Casa Mar y Arena (2019) and Casa Barragán (2020).
With architecture firm EDAA, they created installations for culinary and design platforms Millesime, Banamex Center, Mexico City (2017) and Design House during the Design Week event, Mexico City (2018).
A Japanese artist living and working in Mexico City.
Following years of career in filmmaking, Yupica sought to evolve what he created on the screen to generate real world sensory experiences to explore contemporary spirituality in the context of a global environs.
Yupica develops installations, objects, painting, prints, and moving images in wide-ranging scales—from microscopic pieces to immersive site-specific projects--
Tools such as animation software, organic and chemical materials to grow mutable forms are used, undetermined malleability inspires a rise above the pre-established concept of self, an evolution toward conscious awareness.
Childhood experiences in suburban Tokyo form substrata of his worldview, most notably animism, the polymorphous potentiality that disregards boundaries between all entities (human, animal, nature, spiritual and artificial beings), instead seeing them as animated and alive, possessing distinctive spirits. The artist is also inspired in part by biology and metaphysics.
Yupica and his team constantly research, experiment and develop their own forms of expression: ricegraph, animated prismatic sculpture, multidimensional projection. One of the most significant of the latter is his “Re-” technique-- thousands of disks made of rice and resin overlapping to build a large-scale moving-image installation.
In 2013, Yupica founded the interdisciplinary collective ChaMeshiJi, which has exhibited throughout Mexico City. Yupica was invited to contribute to the International Festival of Lights in Mexico City (2016), in Merida (2017) in Villahermosa (2019). Each event attracted more than 50,000 visitors.
In addition, Yupica constantly work with architect Alberto Kalach; Reforma27 (2013), Torre41(2014), Templo de las mil velas (2015), Casa Mar y Arena (2019) and Casa Barragán (2020).
With architecture firm EDAA, they created installations for culinary and design platforms Millesime, Banamex Center, Mexico City (2017) and Design House during the Design Week event, Mexico City (2018).