Seitaro Yamazaki (Tokyo) is a contemporary artist and designer whose practice explores the fragile beauty of what has been overlooked, neglected, or erased. With a background in sociology, architecture, and design, he works across installation, sculpture, painting, and media art, questioning the limits of representation and perception.
At the core of his practice lies the conviction that beauty is found not in clarity or completion, but in incompletion, ambiguity, and forgetting. His series Still Voice reinterprets the tradition of Western still life—particularly the Spanish bodegón—through blurred UV-ink imagery, sound sonographs, and photographic compositions that resist stability. What was Almost There recovers fading images and memories as fragments that coexist with disappearance. The Grammar of Silence attempts to articulate silence itself, while The Hesitation of the Image captures the suspended hesitation just before an image fully emerges.
Drawing on Japanese aesthetics—ma (interval/emptiness), mu (nothingness), and impermanence—while resonating with Western art-historical lineages such as the bodegón and negative space, Yamazaki refuses closure within either framework. Instead, his works dissolve the boundaries between clarity and obscurity, persistence and erosion, proposing a contemporary visual philosophy that listens to silence, residue, and the unseen.
By merging image, sound, and material instability, Yamazaki’s practice prompts viewers to question what remains outside representation. His works are less about fixed images than about fragile traces—gestures that invite reflection on time, memory, and alternative systems of value.
Through this interplay of dissolution and persistence, Yamazaki positions art not as the depiction of things themselves, but as an attentiveness to what slips away. In doing so, he opens a space where silence speaks, and where the overlooked and forgotten regain presence within the contemporary imagination.
